The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 13
'Your power is greater than mine: take the crown; you have won it fairly!'
Who acts: power, you · What happens: be, take, win · To what, where: crown, power
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, you), 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 power | nmod:poss |
| 3 | power | power | 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 | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 greater | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 greater | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 won | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 won | aux |
| 15 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 take | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 won | obj |
| 17 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 15 won | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your power | than mine; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the crown | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win | present · perfect | you | power | fairly property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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