The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 201
Have you really been foolish enough to believe that the daughter of the King of the Low Countries would ever marry the son of a boatman?’
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: be, believe, marry · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foolish | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 foolish | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 foolish | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 foolish | cop |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 foolish | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 foolish | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Countries | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Countries | det |
| 17 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Countries | amod |
| 18 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 marry | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 marry | advmod |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marry | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 boatman | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boatman | det |
| 26 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 foolish | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | you | enough, foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | marry | would | the daughter of the King of the Low Countries | the son of a boatman | ever | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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