The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 91
That will be quite an island for her; she is so small and light.
Who acts: That, girl · What happens: be · To what, where: island
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 (That, girl), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 island | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 island | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 island | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 island | det:predet |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 island | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 small | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 small | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 small | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 light | cc |
| 15 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 small | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | That | quite island | for girl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | girl | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | girl not said here | 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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