The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 120
“But he is my prime minister’s son!”
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 son | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 minister | amod |
| 7 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 minister | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | man | my prime minister's son | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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