The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 207
‘My Lady Queen, you are fair, ‘tis true, But Snowdrop is fairer far than you.
Who acts: Lady Queen, tis, Snowdrop · What happens: be
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 (Lady Queen, tis, Snowdrop), 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 Queen | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | compound |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fair | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fair | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 11 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | nsubj |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fair | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fairer | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fairer | cc |
| 15 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fairer | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fairer | cop |
| 17 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fair | conj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 fairer | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 far | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My Lady Queen | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tis | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Snowdrop | fair, far property | 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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