The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 54
The King’s physicians will say, This is an impostor, and not a learned man,’ and they will make all sorts of difficulties, but you will overcome them all at last, and will present yourself before the sick King.
Who acts: physicians, This, ashes, you · What happens: say, be, learn, make, overcome, present · To what, where: impostor, sorts, ashes, last, yourself, difficulties · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (physicians, This, ashes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 physicians | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 impostor | punct |
| 8 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 impostor | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 impostor | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 impostor | det |
| 11 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 man | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 man | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 impostor | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 impostor | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 make | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 sorts | det |
| 25 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 difficulties | case |
| 27 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sorts | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 overcome | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 overcome | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 overcome | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 overcome | aux |
| 32 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 overcome | obj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 overcome | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 present | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 present | cc |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 present | aux |
| 40 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | conj |
| 41 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 present | obj |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 King | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 King | det |
| 44 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 King | amod |
| 45 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 present | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | the King's physicians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | a impostor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | future | ashes = ash | all sorts of difficulties | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product | ||||
| 5 | overcome | future | you | ashes = ash | last | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 6 | present | future | the King's physicians not said here | yourself | before the sick King | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 7 | sort | difficulties | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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