The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 28
‘If I chose I could make any one of my scullions richer and more powerful than you.
Who acts: I · What happens: choose, make · To what, where: one
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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 chose | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 chose | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 chose | nsubj |
| 4 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chose | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 scullions | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 scullions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | scullions | scullion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 scullions | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 powerful | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 powerful | advmod |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 richer | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 powerful | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | could | I | any one of my scullions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
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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