The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 22
‘Bah,’ said his brothers, ‘you will never succeed any better than we did.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: say, not succeed, do · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Bah | bah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 succeed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 13 succeed | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 succeed | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 succeed | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 succeed | advmod |
| 13 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 succeed | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | landlord's brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not succeed | future | you | good property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.
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