The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 7
So the next oldest son was willing to show what he could do.
Who acts: next oldest son, man · What happens: be, show, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next oldest son, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 willing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 show | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next oldest son | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the next oldest son not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | could | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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