The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 73
But however grand or powerful he might be the shepherd did not feel a bit afraid of him.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, not feel · To what, where: shepherd
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 grand | cc |
| 2 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 grand | advmod |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 powerful | cc |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grand | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shepherd | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shepherd | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shepherd | det |
| 10 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 he | appos |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 feel | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 feel | advmod |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grand | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might | the shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not feel | past · do-support | king | afraid property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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