The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 50
'My lord, as to her beauty, you can judge of that for yourself.
Who acts: lord · What happens: judge
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 judge | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 judge | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beauty | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 beauty | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 judge | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 judge | aux |
| 12 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 judge | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 yourself | case |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 judge | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | can | My lord | of that; for yourself | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for yourself=Beneficiary |
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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