The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 18
“I can make your son the handsomest prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose whichever you like for him.”
Who acts: Fairy, you · What happens: make, choose, like · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prince | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 powerful | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 powerful | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 richest | det |
| 16 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 powerful | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 powerful | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 powerful | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 powerful | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 powerful | advmod |
| 21 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 choose | punct |
| 23 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 24 | whichever | whichever | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 like | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 like | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 choose | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 like | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | can | the Fairy = fairy | your son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Product | ||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | infinitive | the Fairy = fairy not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | you | for doubt; whichever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute |
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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