The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 94
‘That is quite impossible,’ replied the servant.
Who acts: That, impossible · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: servant
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, impossible), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 impossible | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 impossible | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 impossible | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 impossible | advmod |
| 5 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 impossible | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 impossible | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 servant | det |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | impossible | the servant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent servant=Topic |
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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