The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 61
‘What, do you think you are braver than your sisters, vain little one?
Who acts: you · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 think | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 braver | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 braver | cop |
| 9 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 think | ccomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 sisters | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 braver | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sisters | appos |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | than your sisters; brave property | 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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