The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 93
So I disguised myself and came here, in order to prove the truth to you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: disguise, come, prove · To what, where: myself, truth, you
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 (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 disguised | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 disguised | nsubj |
| 3 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 disguised | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disguised | conj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prove | punct |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 prove | mark |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | fixed |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prove | mark |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prove | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 prove | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disguised | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | I | myself | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | I not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | I not said here | the truth | you | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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.
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