Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 82
It is easier getting inside them gates than getting out again.
Who acts: getting gates · What happens: be, get, get out
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (getting gates), 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 | 3 easier | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 easier | cop |
| 3 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gates | amod |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 getting | obl |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 easier | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 getting | mark |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 easier | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 getting | compound:prt |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 getting | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | getting gates | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | inside bodies = body | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | get out | gerund | getting gates not said here | again | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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