The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 110
Why, that is the easiest thing in the world.’
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: easiest thing, world
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the easiest thing | the world | 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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