The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 5
Whoever spins the best will be my favourite daughter-in-law.’
Who acts: Whoever, daughter · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: best favourite law
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 (Whoever, daughter), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 spins | nsubj |
| 2 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 law | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 law | amod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 law | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 law | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 law | nmod:poss |
| 8 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 law | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 law | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spins | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spins | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Whoever | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | future | daughter | my best favourite 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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