The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 87
“I am the son of the prime minister of a great nation, and yet see what a degrading occupation I am reduced to.”
Who acts: son · What happens: be, see, degrade, reduce · To what, where: son, degrading occupation · 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 (son), 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 son | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 minister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 8 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minister | amod |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nation | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nation | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nation | amod |
| 13 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minister | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 reduced | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 occupation | det |
| 20 | degrading | degrade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 occupation | amod |
| 21 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 reduced | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 reduced | aux:pass |
| 24 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 see | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 reduced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the gardener's son = son | the son | of the prime minister of a great nation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | degrade in a quote | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | reduce in a quote | present · passive | a degrading occupation | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient what=Extent |
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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