The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 58
I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please me far better than roast chicken and sweetmeats with anybody else.’
Who acts: I, bread · What happens: be, share, please · To what, where: bread, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bread), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 please | mark |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 please | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 water | cc |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bread | conj |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bread | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Fanfaronade | case |
| 10 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shared | obl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 please | aux |
| 12 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 please | obj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 please | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 chicken | case |
| 17 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chicken | compound |
| 18 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 better | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sweetmeats | cc |
| 20 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chicken | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 anybody | case |
| 22 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 sweetmeats | nmod |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 anybody | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | bread and water not said here | with Fanfaronade | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | future | bread and water | me | good property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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