The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 60
‘Nothing could be easier, Sire,’ they answered, ‘for she is in the Chamber of Echoes.’
Who acts: Nothing, people, Sire · What happens: be, answer
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, people, Sire), 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 easier | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easier | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easier | cop |
| 5 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sire | punct |
| 7 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 easier | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easier | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chamber | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chamber | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Chamber | case |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Chamber | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Chamber | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Chamber | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Chamber | det |
| 19 | Chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Echoes | case |
| 21 | Echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Chamber | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easier | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | Nothing | Sire obl; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | people | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Sire | for the Chamber; of Echoes | 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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