The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 31

What it is to be is a secret, but we hope that it will not be dull.

Who acts: we, Book · What happens: be, hope, not be · To what, where: secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Book), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 secret	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 secret	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 secret	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	8 secret	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 secret	cop
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 secret	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hope	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hope	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hope	nsubj
12	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 secret	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dull	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dull	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 dull	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 dull	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dull	cop
18	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hope	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 secret	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a secret		tree rules
2	hope	present	we			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not is	future	Book		dull 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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