The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 98
Such another splendid knight is not to be found on earth!” said the brothers.
What happens: not be, say · To what, where: splendid knight, earth, 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: 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 found | mark |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 found | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brothers | det |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · passive | another splendid knight | earth | find property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
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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