The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 27
At first there was a slight track, difficult, but not impossible to follow; but this was soon lost, and the Pole Star was their only guide.
Who acts: Pole Star · What happens: be, not be, follow, lose · To what, where: this, only guide
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pole Star), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 was | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 difficult | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 track | det |
| 6 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 track | amod |
| 7 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 difficult | punct |
| 9 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 impossible | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 impossible | advmod |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 difficult | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 impossible | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 lost | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux:pass |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 lost | advmod |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 difficult | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 guide | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 guide | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Star | det |
| 25 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Star | compound |
| 26 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 guide | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 guide | cop |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 guide | nmod:poss |
| 29 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 guide | amod |
| 30 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | this | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the Pole Star | spaniels's only guide | 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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