The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 47
‘He must be a most accomplished Swineherd!
Who acts: courtier · What happens: accomplish, be · To what, where: accomplished Swineherd
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtier), 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 Swineherd | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Swineherd | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Swineherd | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Swineherd | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Swineherd | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accomplished | advmod |
| 7 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Swineherd | amod |
| 8 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Swineherd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | participle | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | must | courtier | a accomplished Swineherd | 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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