The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 58
There is something greater than I am, and that is the cloud.
Who acts: something, that · What happens: be · To what, where: cloud
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 am | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 greater | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cloud | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cloud | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 cloud | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cloud | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloud | det |
| 13 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the cloud | 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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