The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 308
It is only possible to cure people whose souls are as clean as the palm of my hand.
Who acts: It, souls · What happens: be, cure · To what, where: people
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 (It, souls), 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 | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cure | mark |
| 6 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | csubj |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cure | obj |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 souls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clean | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clean | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 clean | advmod |
| 12 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 palm | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palm | det |
| 15 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clean | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palm | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure | to-infinitive | people | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer people=Source | |||||
| 3 | is | present | souls | as the palm of my hand; clean 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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