The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 39
'That young man must be a great wizard; he may be useful to me.'
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: be · To what, where: great wizard, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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 | _ | 9 wizard | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wizard | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wizard | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wizard | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wizard | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wizard | amod |
| 9 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 useful | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 useful | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 useful | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 useful | cop |
| 14 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wizard | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 useful | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wizard | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 wizard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | that young man | a great wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | man | me | useful property | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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