The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 55
It is so disagreeable to be hurried.
Who acts: breakfast · What happens: be, hurry
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (breakfast), 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 disagreeable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disagreeable | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 disagreeable | advmod |
| 4 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hurried | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurried | aux:pass |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 disagreeable | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disagreeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | breakfast | disagreeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurry | to-infinitive · passive | breakfast not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V» |
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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