The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 8
It was easy enough for the council to entrust this mission to the turtle, but not at all so easy for him to fulfil it.
Who acts: council · What happens: be, entrust, not be, fulfil · To what, where: mission, turtle, liver
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council), 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 | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 easy | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 entrust | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 council | det |
| 7 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrust | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 entrust | mark |
| 9 | entrust | entrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mission | det |
| 11 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrust | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 turtle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 turtle | det |
| 14 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrust | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 easy | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 easy | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 easy | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 not | obl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 easy | advmod |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 easy | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 easy | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fulfil | mark |
| 25 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 easy | csubj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fulfil | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | easy, enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | entrust | to-infinitive | the council | this mission | the turtle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mission=Theme to turtle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not be | for turtle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fulfil | to-infinitive | liver | 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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