The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 51
I’ll bet the court tailor himself cannot do better.
Who acts: I, tailor · What happens: bet, not do · To what, where: court tailor
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 (I, tailor), 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 | 3 bet | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bet | aux |
| 3 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tailor | compound |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bet | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tailor | acl:relcl |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | future | I | the court tailor | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not do | can | tailor | the court tailor not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Eventuality |
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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