More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 30

I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becomes not our royal dignity, and savours of treason in thee."

Who acts: I, thou, This · What happens: hear, keep, not become, savour · To what, where: idea, greater state, royal dignity, treason, thee

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou, This), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hear	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thee	case
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 hear	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keepest	punct
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 keepest	nsubj
8	keepest	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 greater	advmod
10	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 state	amod
11	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keepest	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 I.	case
13	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 state	nmod
14	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 becomes	nsubj
15	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 keepest	parataxis
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 becomes	advmod
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dignity	nmod:poss
18	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dignity	amod
19	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 becomes	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 savours	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 savours	cc
22	savours	savour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 treason	case
24	treason	treason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 savours	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 thee	case
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 savours	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I	idea		of thee	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	keep	present	thou	greater state		than I.	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme
3	not become	present	This	our royal dignity			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	savour			treason	thee		nom savour «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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