The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 31
“Yes, I am stronger than many men,” answered he, “and all the ropes in the world would not hold me.
Who acts: stronger, ropes · What happens: be, answer, not hold · To what, where: horse, stronger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stronger, ropes), 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 stronger | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 stronger | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stronger | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | cop |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stronger | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stronger | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stronger | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hold | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hold | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ropes | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ropes | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ropes | det |
| 19 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ropes | nmod |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 hold | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hold | advmod |
| 25 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hold | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | stronger = strong | than many men; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | stronger | horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not hold in a quote | would | all ropes in the world | stronger = strong | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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