The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 112
‘You are most fair, my Lady Queen, None fairer in the land, I ween.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, ween
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 fair | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lady | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | conj |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lady | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fairer | punct |
| 11 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 fairer | nsubj |
| 12 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fair | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fairer | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ween | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ween | nsubj |
| 18 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ween | present | I | 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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