The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 29
It is a ticklish matter, that I can assure you.’
Who acts: It, I · What happens: be, assure · To what, where: ticklish matter, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I), 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 | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 4 | ticklish | ticklish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 matter | amod |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assure | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 assure | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 assure | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 assure | aux |
| 10 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 matter | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 assure | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 assure | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a ticklish matter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assure | can | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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