The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 45
“I know you are far above a little dog, but if it were right and allowable that great people should ill-treat all who are beneath them, I might at this moment beat you, or kill you, for a fairy is greater than a man.
Who acts: thoughts, you, least, great people, fairy · What happens: know, be, treat, beat, kill · To what, where: that, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thoughts, you, least, great people), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 beat | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 dog | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dog | cop |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | advmod |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treat | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 treat | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 right | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 treat | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 allowable | cc |
| 18 | allowable | allowable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 right | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 treat | obj |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 treat | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 treat | aux |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 treat | advcl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ill | punct |
| 25 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | parataxis |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 treat | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 them | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 them | cop |
| 29 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 all | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 might | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 beat | aux |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 moment | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 moment | det |
| 36 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 might | obl |
| 37 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 beat | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 kill | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 kill | cc |
| 41 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 beat | conj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 kill | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 greater | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 48 greater | mark |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 fairy | det |
| 46 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 greater | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 greater | cop |
| 48 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 kill | parataxis |
| 49 | than | than | ADP | _ | 51 man | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 man | det |
| 51 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 greater | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Prince Darling's thoughts = thought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | above a little dog; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | least | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | least not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | treat in a quote | should | great people | that | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | beneath dogs = dog | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | beat in a quote | might | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||||
| 8 | kill in a quote | infinitive | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | a fairy | than a man; great property | tree rules |
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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