The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 11

‘The two most difficult tasks have been performed.

What happens: perform · To what, where: two difficult tasks

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	9 performed	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tasks	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tasks	nummod
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tasks	amod
6	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 performed	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 performed	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 performed	aux:pass
9	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 performed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	present · perfect · passive		the two difficult tasks					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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