Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 98
Here's another cake--maybe it's not so hard as that."
Who acts: cake, size · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, size), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hard | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hard | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Here | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hard | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | another cake | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | size | as that; hard, maybe property | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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