The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 96
What a hurry he was in, to be sure!
Who acts: Emperor, hurry · What happens: be · To what, where: hurry
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, hurry), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 hurry | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hurry | det |
| 3 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 in | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 in | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 hurry | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sure | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Emperor | what hurry not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | what hurry | sure property | 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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