The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 140
And the proud monarch said to himself, ‘I am powerless in comparison with this man.’
Who acts: proud monarch, I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: monarch, comparison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud monarch, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monarch | det |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monarch | amod |
| 4 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 powerless | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 powerless | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 powerless | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 powerless | cop |
| 12 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 comparison | case |
| 14 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 powerless | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comparison | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 powerless | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 powerless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the proud monarch | monarch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | comparison with this man | powerless 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 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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