The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 31
‘Madam, your incomparable beauty needs no adornment.’
Who acts: incomparable beauty · What happens: need · To what, where: adornment
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (incomparable beauty), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 needs | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | incomparable | incomparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beauty | amod |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Madam | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 adornment | det |
| 9 | adornment | adornment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | your incomparable beauty | no adornment | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adornment=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/31/