The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 71

“You, indeed!” said the brothers, “you look as if you were fit to be among such great lords, nasty beast that you are to sit there!”

Who acts: You · What happens: say, look, be · To what, where: brothers · 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 (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	_	7 said	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 You	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brothers	det
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 fit	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 fit	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 fit	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fit	cop
18	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	24 lords	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 lords	cop
21	among	among	ADP	_	24 lords	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lords	amod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lords	amod
24	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fit	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beast	punct
26	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beast	amod
27	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lords	appos
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sit	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 sit	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 sit	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sit	mark
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 beast	acl:relcl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 sit	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	You	the brothers			tree rules
2	look in a quote	present	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	past	you			fit property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			among such great lords	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	you		there	sit 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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