The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 88
“Mine, your Majesty, needs no great cleverness.
What happens: need · To what, where: great cleverness
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: 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 | _ | 7 needs | punct |
| 2 | Mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 needs | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mine | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 needs | punct |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cleverness | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cleverness | amod |
| 10 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | no great cleverness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleverness=Theme |
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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