The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 25

Must a powerful fairy like myself condescend to explain her doings to you who are no better than an ant by comparison, though you think yourself a great king?’

Who acts: powerful fairy, you · What happens: condescend, explain, not be, think · To what, where: doings, you, yourself

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful fairy, 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	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 condescend	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
3	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fairy	amod
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 condescend	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 myself	case
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fairy	nmod
7	condescend	condescend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 explain	mark
9	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 condescend	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 doings	nmod:poss
11	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 explain	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 explain	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 better	obl
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 better	cop
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 explain	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 ant	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ant	det
20	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 better	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 comparison	case
22	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ant	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 think	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 condescend	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 think	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 king	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 king	amod
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	obl:unmarked
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 condescend	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 condescend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	condescend	must	a powerful fairy like myself				tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	a powerful fairy like myself not said here	Miranda's doings	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doing=Topic to you=Recipient
3	not is	present				than a ant by comparison; good property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	you	yourself		a great king obl:unmarked	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=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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