The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 31
But I hope to prove as cunning as you are.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: hope, prove, be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 hope | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 prove | mark |
| 5 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 cunning | case |
| 7 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prove | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prove | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prove not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | as cunning | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as cunning=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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