The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 155

What a pity it is so ruinously expensive!’

Who acts: pity · What happens: pity, be

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity), 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 expensive	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pity	det
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pity	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 expensive	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 expensive	advmod
7	ruinously	ruinously	ADV	_	8 expensive	advmod
8	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 expensive	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 expensive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pity		pity						tree rules
2	is	present						expensive, ruinously 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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