The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 40
Indeed, the way you speak and the magnificence of your castle prove it plainly.”
Who acts: you, way · What happens: speak, prove · To what, where: way, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, way), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 prove | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prove | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 magnificence | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magnificence | det |
| 9 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 castle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 magnificence | nmod |
| 13 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 prove | obj |
| 15 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 13 prove | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 prove | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | you | the way not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | infinitive | the way | castle | indeed, plainly property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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