The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 91
'Your magic is greater than mine,' he said; 'and you are young and strong, while I am old and tired.
Who acts: magic, Jack, you, I · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic, Jack, you, I), 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 | _ | 5 greater | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 magic | nmod:poss |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greater | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | cop |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 greater | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 greater | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 greater | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 young | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 young | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 young | cop |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strong | cc |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 young | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 old | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 old | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 old | cop |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 young | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tired | cc |
| 26 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your magic | than mine; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | I not said here | 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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