The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 45
There must be something greater, something grander to come--but what?
Who acts: something · What happens: be, come
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 be | nsubj |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 something | conj |
| 8 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grander | xcomp |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 something | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | must | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/45/