The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 93
Pointing to the box, she said, ‘Here is my greatest treasure, whose like is not to be found in the whole world.
Who acts: maiden, my · What happens: point, say, be, not be, treasure · To what, where: box, greatest treasure, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, my), 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 | Pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 box | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pointing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pointing | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Here | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Here | punct |
| 10 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Here | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 treasure | amod |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 like | nmod:poss |
| 17 | like | like | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treasure | conj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 found | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 found | aux:pass |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | maiden not said here | the box | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to box=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is | present · passive | my greatest treasure and my greatest treasure and greatest treasure's like's like | the whole world | find property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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