The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 40
You are sharper than I am, for that never occurred to me.’
Who acts: You, that · What happens: be, not occur · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, that), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sharper | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharper | cop |
| 3 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 am | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 am | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharper | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurred | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 occurred | mark |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 occurred | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 occurred | advmod |
| 11 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sharper | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 occurred | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharper | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | sharp property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not occur | past | that | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 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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