The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 111
It is as heavy as if it were filled with stones!
Who acts: bridge · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 heavy | advmod |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 filled | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 filled | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 filled | aux:pass |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heavy | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stones | case |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bridge | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | bridge | with stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stone=Instrument |
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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