The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 92
Is it to stand much longer on the earth?”’
Who acts: Rotten · What happens: be · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rotten), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stand | mark |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 stand | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rotten | the earth | long, stand 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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