The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 41
You are indeed fortunate, my son; you have won a pearl of a wife.’
Who acts: You, wife · What happens: be, win, pearl · To what, where: pearl
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 (You, wife), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 fortunate | advmod |
| 4 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fortunate | vocative |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 won | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fortunate | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pearl | det |
| 13 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pearl | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortunate | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | my son vocative; fortunate, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | present · perfect | you | a pearl of a wife | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pearl | a wife | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=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 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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