The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 87
But who can my rival be, whose fatal beauty is greater than mine?”
Who acts: fatal beauty · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fatal beauty), 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 can | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 greater | aux |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rival | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 can | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 greater | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 greater | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beauty | amod |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 greater | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greater | cop |
| 12 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 mine | case |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 greater | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 greater | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | fatal beauty | than mine; great 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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