The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 134

How then can you be a match for him, my son?’

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: match

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 match	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 match	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 match	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 match	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 match	det
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 match	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 him	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 match	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	you	a match			then	for snake	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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