The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 41
“For,” he said, “however flourishing we may seem to foreigners, we are in danger of an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and as powerful as this of his Majesty.
Who acts: Reldresal, we, island · What happens: say, flourish, seem, be · To what, where: island, danger, other great empire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reldresal, we, island), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flourishing | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 flourishing | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 flourishing | advmod |
| 10 | flourishing | flourish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seem | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seem | aux |
| 13 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 flourishing | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 foreigners | case |
| 15 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seem | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 danger | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 danger | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 danger | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 danger | case |
| 20 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flourishing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 invasion | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 invasion | det |
| 23 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 danger | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 island | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 island | det |
| 26 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flourishing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Blefuscu | case |
| 28 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 island | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 empire | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 empire | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 empire | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 empire | det |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 empire | amod |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 empire | amod |
| 35 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 island | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 universe | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 universe | det |
| 38 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 empire | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 large | punct |
| 40 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 42 large | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 large | case |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flourishing | advcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 powerful | cc |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 powerful | advmod |
| 45 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 large | conj |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 this | case |
| 47 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 powerful | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Majesty | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 50 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 this | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Reldresal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flourish in a quote | gerund | Reldresal not said here | the island of Blefuscu and the other great empire | however property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem in a quote | may | we | to foreigners | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | danger | of a invasion | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the island of Blefuscu and the other great empire | the other great empire | of the universe | 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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