The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 1
In China, as I daresay you know, the Emperor is a Chinaman, and all his courtiers are also Chinamen.
Who acts: I, you, Emperor, courtiers · What happens: daresay, know, be · To what, where: China, Chinaman, Chinamen
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Emperor, courtiers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daresay | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daresay | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 daresay | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 daresay | nsubj |
| 6 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chinaman | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Chinaman | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Chinaman | det |
| 14 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 know | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Chinamen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Chinamen | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 courtiers | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Chinamen | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Chinamen | cop |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 Chinamen | advmod |
| 22 | Chinamen | Chinamen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chinaman | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay | present | I | China | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Emperor | a Chinaman and Chinamen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | China's courtiers | Chinamen | 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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