The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 87
‘Be as accomplished as you are handsome, and take the name of Prince Peerless, since that is the only title which will suit you now.’
Who acts: you, that, only title · What happens: accomplish, be, take, suit, name · To what, where: name, only title, you, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (you, that, only title), 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 | _ | 4 accomplished | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 accomplished | advmod |
| 4 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 handsome | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 handsome | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 handsome | cop |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accomplished | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 accomplished | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | Peerless | Peerless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prince | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 title | punct |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 title | mark |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 title | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 title | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 title | det |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 title | amod |
| 23 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 suit | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 suit | aux |
| 26 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 title | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 suit | obj |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 suit | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplished | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | infinitive · passive | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING» | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | you | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the name of Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the only title | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suit | future | the only title | you | now | tree rules | |||
| 6 | name | Prince | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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