The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 2
The proud but feel a sharper pain, And make a greater triumph his.”
Who acts: you · What happens: feel, make · To what, where: sharper pain, greater triumph
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 proud | det |
| 2 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | csubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 feel | cc |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 proud | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pain | det |
| 6 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 pain | amod |
| 7 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 triumph | det |
| 12 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 triumph | amod |
| 13 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | you not said here | a sharper pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | imperative | you not said here | a greater triumph | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset triumph=Beneficiary his=Product |
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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