The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 122

It was no joke to throw things into the moon!

Who acts: moon · What happens: be, throw · To what, where: joke, things, moon

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 joke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 throw	mark
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 joke	acl
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 throw	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 joke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	moon	no joke					tree rules
2	throw	to-infinitive		things				into the moon result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer thing=Theme into moon=Result

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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