The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 114
Perhaps—I do not know for certain—but perhaps, I may be stronger than the Yara.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 certain | case |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stronger | cc |
| 11 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 stronger | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stronger | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stronger | cop |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 know | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Yara | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Yara | det |
| 19 | Yara | Yara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stronger | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | for certain; perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | may | I | than the Yara; perhaps, strong 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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