The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 9
I am a greater prince than you are a princess, and I will marry you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: greater prince, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 princess | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 princess | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prince | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 marry | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prince | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a greater prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | than a princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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