The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 107

'It is all very well for you to pretend that you have such good manners, and are so much better than we, but we have at least a father and mother, while you have only got the river, like the toads and the frogs.'

Who acts: matter, you, we · What happens: be, pretend, have, get · To what, where: such good manners, father, least, river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, you, we), 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	_	6 well	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 well	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 pretend	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 pretend	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pretend	mark
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 well	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pretend	advcl
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 manners	amod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 manners	amod
16	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 better	cc
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 better	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 better	advmod
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 have	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 we	case
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 better	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 better	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 father	nmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 father	det
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mother	cc
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 father	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 got	punct
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 got	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 got	aux
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 got	advmod
40	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 have	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 river	det
42	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 toads	punct
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 toads	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 toads	det
46	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 got	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 frogs	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 frogs	det
49	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 toads	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	matter			all, well property	tree rules
2	pretend	to-infinitive	you				tree rules
3	have	present	you	such good manners			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient
4	is	present	you not said here			than we; good property	tree rules
5	have	present	we	a father and mother	least		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
6	get	present · perfect	you	the river		like the toads and the frogs	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus

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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