The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 131
Dear me, that is easy enough!
Who acts: that · What happens: be
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 (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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Dear | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 easy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Dear | conj |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | easy, enough 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 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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