The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 73
‘I am sure you will not be less generous than the heathen king was, sire.
Who acts: I, you, heathen king · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, heathen king), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 generous | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 generous | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 generous | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 generous | cop |
| 9 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 generous | advmod |
| 10 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 sire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 13 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sire | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sire | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sire | punct |
| 17 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 generous | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | you | generous, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the heathen king | than sire | 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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