The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 40
Do you suppose my son would compete with that crazy tailor as to which could make the best clothes?
Who acts: you, son · What happens: suppose, compete, make · To what, where: best clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compete | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 compete | aux |
| 7 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tailor | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tailor | det |
| 10 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tailor | amod |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compete | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 compete | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clothes | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 clothes | amod |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 make | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compete | would | my son | with that crazy tailor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tailor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | could | the best clothes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |
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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