The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 36
“The wooer is powerful, O Sultan, and nothing is impossible to him.”
Who acts: wooer, nothing · What happens: be · To what, where: sultan
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 (wooer, nothing), 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 powerful | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wooer | det |
| 3 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 powerful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 powerful | cop |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sultan | punct |
| 7 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 Sultan | case |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 powerful | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 impossible | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 impossible | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 impossible | cop |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 powerful | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 impossible | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 powerful | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the wooer | Sultan vocative; powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | nothing | sultan | impossible 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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