The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 36
That will prove too much for him.’
Who acts: That · What happens: prove · To what, where: much
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | 3 prove | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prove | aux |
| 3 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prove | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 much | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prove | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | future | That | much | for wooer | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
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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