The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 63
Shall I make you as beautiful as you deserve to be?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: make, deserve, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 deserve | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 deserve | nsubj |
| 9 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deserve | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | shall | I | you | beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | |||
| 2 | deserve | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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