The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 281
It will be a surprise for you.’
Who acts: stone · What happens: be · To what, where: surprise
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprise | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 surprise | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 surprise | det |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprise | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | stone | a surprise | for you | 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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