The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 159

It must be very miserable to be a little bird!

Who acts: daylight · What happens: be · To what, where: little bird

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight), 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	5 miserable	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 miserable	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 miserable	advmod
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	10 bird	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bird	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 miserable	advcl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 miserable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	daylight					miserable property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	daylight not said here	a little bird					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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