The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 91
He is King of Waq of Qaf, and you will find none better.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: be, find · To what, where: none
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Waq | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Waq | cop |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Waq | compound |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Waq | case |
| 5 | Waq | Waq | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Qaf | case |
| 7 | Qaf | Qaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Waq | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Waq | conj |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 find | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waq | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waq | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | king | of King Waq; of Qaf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | none | good property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
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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