Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 75
There she is as harmless as a lamb.
Who acts: rest · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 harmless | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 harmless | advmod |
| 5 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 lamb | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lamb | det |
| 8 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harmless | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rest | there | as a lamb; harmless 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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