The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 102
“My work, your Majesty, is mere smith’s work.
Who acts: work, My, mere smith · What happens: be, work
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, My, mere smith), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 work | nmod:poss |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mere | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 work | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mere | cop |
| 9 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smith | amod |
| 10 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 smith | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My work and your Majesty | mere property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work in a quote | My | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | work in a quote | mere smith | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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