The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 59
“I am so strong that no one can bind me, and so swift that not even an arrow can catch me.
Who acts: reindeer, one, arrow · What happens: be, bind, swift, catch · To what, where: reindeer
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 (reindeer, one, arrow), 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 | _ | 5 strong | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bind | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bind | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bind | aux |
| 10 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 strong | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bind | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swift | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swift | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 swift | advmod |
| 15 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 catch | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 arrow | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 arrow | advmod |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 arrow | det |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 catch | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | aux |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swift | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the reindeer = reindeer | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind in a quote | can | no one | the reindeer = reindeer | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swift in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | can | a arrow | the reindeer = reindeer | vn get-13.5.1 «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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