The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 105

Not even whether he be rich or poor--a knight or a beggar.’

Who acts: king · What happens: not be, be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rich	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	6 rich	advmod
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 rich	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 poor	cc
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rich	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 knight	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knight	det
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rich	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 beggar	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beggar	det
14	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knight	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive	king					rich property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here						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 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.

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