The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 72

‘Ah! but this is quite a peculiar straw.

Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: peculiar straw

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 straw	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 straw	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 straw	cc
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 straw	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 straw	cop
7	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	10 straw	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 straw	det
9	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 straw	compound
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 straw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	quite peculiar straw					tree rules

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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