The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 61
‘That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother.
Who acts: thou, beast · What happens: wish, overcome, be · To what, where: beast, brother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, beast), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wishest | obj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 wishest | nsubj |
| 6 | wishest | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beast | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 overcome | mark |
| 8 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wishest | xcomp |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brother | cop |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | thou | that beast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overcome not said to happen | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that beast | my brother | 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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