The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 22
Only a good man can be really contented.”
What happens: content · To what, where: good man
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: 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 8 contented | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 contented | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 contented | aux:pass |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 contented | advmod |
| 8 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 contented | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | can · passive | a good man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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