The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 112

The son is just as able to grow a beard on the palm of his hand as to execute such a task in twenty-four hours.’

Who acts: son · What happens: be, grow, execute · To what, where: beard, palm, task

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 able	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 able	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 able	advmod
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grow	mark
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beard	det
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 palm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palm	det
13	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palm	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 execute	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 execute	mark
19	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grow	advcl
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 task	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 task	det
22	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 execute	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 hours	case
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 four	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 twenty	punct
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hours	nummod
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 execute	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the son				able property	tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive	the son not said here	a beard	the palm of son's hand			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beard=Theme
3	execute	to-infinitive	the son not said here	such task		hour		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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