The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 44
And besides, the Count seemed made of iron and was very proud of his strength, often boasting that he should live to be a hundred.
Who acts: Count · What happens: beside, make, be, boast, live · To what, where: Count, hundred
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 besides | cc |
| 2 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Count | det |
| 5 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 besides | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 iron | case |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proud | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 proud | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 proud | advmod |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 strength | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proud | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boasting | punct |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 boasting | advmod |
| 19 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 besides | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 boasting | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hundred | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hundred | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hundred | det |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 live | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beside | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the Count | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | of Count's strength; proud property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | boast speech: other | gerund | often property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | should | Count | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | a hundred | tree rules |
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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