The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 106
‘If your son is as wonderfully clever as you say, and if there is nothing in the world that he cannot do, let him build a magnificent castle, just opposite my palace windows, in four and twenty hours.
Who acts: son, you, nothing · What happens: be, say, not do, let, build · To what, where: son, magnificent castle, palace windows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, nothing), 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 | _ | 8 clever | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 clever | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clever | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 wonderfully | advmod |
| 7 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 8 clever | advmod |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clever | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 let | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 let | advcl |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 is | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 clever | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 let | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 castle | det |
| 31 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 castle | amod |
| 32 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 build | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 opposite | punct |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 opposite | advmod |
| 35 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clever | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 windows | nmod:poss |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 windows | compound |
| 38 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 opposite | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 four | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 four | case |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 windows | appos |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 hours | cc |
| 43 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 hours | nummod |
| 44 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 four | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your son | clever, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do | can | son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | your son not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | build | infinitive | son not said here | a magnificent castle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | ||||
| 7 | be | your son not said here | my palace windows | 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 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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