The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 68
I don’t know anything better than that for curing the deaf and dumb!’
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, cure · To what, where: anything, deaf
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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), 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 | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 anything | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 curing | mark |
| 10 | curing | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 anything | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 deaf | det |
| 12 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 curing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dumb | cc |
| 14 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deaf | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cure | gerund | the deaf | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer deaf=Source |
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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