The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 3

TO MASTER BILLY TREMAYNE MILES A PROFOUND STUDENT YET AN AMIABLE CRITIC

What happens: master · To what, where: BILLY

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. 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	TO	to	PART	_	2 MASTER	mark
2	MASTER	master	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	BILLY	BillyDorsey@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT	X	_	2 MASTER	obj
4	TREMAYNE	TREMAYNE	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 MILES	compound
5	MILES	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 MASTER	obj
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 STUDENT	det
7	PROFOUND	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 STUDENT	amod
8	STUDENT	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 MILES	nmod:unmarked
9	YET	yet	ADV	_	2 MASTER	advmod
10	AN	an	ADP	_	12 CRITIC	case
11	AMIABLE	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 CRITIC	amod
12	CRITIC	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 MASTER	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	master	to-infinitive		BILLY			yet	an AMIABLE CRITIC	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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