The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 107
“But I am much better looking, and there are my two wives, are they not beautiful?”
Who acts: Pivi, wives, two wives · What happens: be, look, not be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, wives, two wives), 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 | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 better | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 better | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 better | advmod |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 looking | obl |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 beautiful | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 are | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wives | nummod |
| 14 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Pivi | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | gerund | wives = wife not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | my two wives | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | wives = wife | beautiful 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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