The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 66
‘The town is easy to get into, but more difficult to get out of,’ sighed Hyacinthia.
Who acts: town · What happens: be, get, get out, sigh · To what, where: Hyacinthia
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sighed | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | ccomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 difficult | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 difficult | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 difficult | advmod |
| 12 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 easy | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 difficult | csubj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 out | fixed |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 19 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sighed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the town | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the town not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be | the town not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get out | to-infinitive | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sigh | past | Hyacinthia | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hyacinthia=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/66/