The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 122
But for you, and you only, I am a man like other men.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 you | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 you | conj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 you | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 man | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a man | like other men | 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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