The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 64
‘The rib of a whale shall be our silver spoon.’
Who acts: rib · What happens: be · To what, where: silver spoon
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rib), 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 | _ | 11 spoon | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rib | det |
| 3 | rib | rib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoon | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 whale | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rib | nmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoon | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spoon | cop |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoon | compound |
| 11 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoon | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | the rib of a whale | our silver spoon | 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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