The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 82

I am told that you are more powerful than any man on earth, and as I am powerful too, let us try which is the strongest.”

Who acts: you, I, us · What happens: tell, be, let, try · To what, where: I, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, us), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 powerful	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 powerful	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 powerful	cop
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 powerful	advmod
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 powerful	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 earth	case
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 powerful	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 powerful	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 powerful	cop
19	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 let	advcl
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 powerful	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 powerful	punct
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 strongest	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 strongest	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 strongest	det
28	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 try	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present	you		than any man on earth; powerful property	tree rules
3	is	present	I		powerful property	tree rules
4	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
5	try	infinitive	us not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is not said to happen	present			strong 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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