The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 26
Whichever dog turns out the best, its mistress will be my favourite daughter-in-law.’
Who acts: dog, mistress · What happens: turn out, be · To what, where: best, favourite daughter
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, mistress), 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 | Whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turns | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 best | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 turns | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 daughter | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 daughter | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | parataxis |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 law | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 18 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | present | whichever dog | the best | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | dog's mistress | my favourite daughter and law | 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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