The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 61
For a man is not a courtier unless he can do everything.
Who acts: bird · What happens: not be, do · To what, where: courtier, everything
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 courtier | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 courtier | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 courtier | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 courtier | det |
| 7 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 courtier | acl |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 courtier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a courtier | for a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | can | bird | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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