The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 69
At the same time I would like the best and cleverest of you to rule over my people.
Who acts: I · What happens: like, rule · To what, where: best
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 like | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cleverest | cc |
| 11 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 best | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 cleverest | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rule | mark |
| 15 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 best | csubj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rule | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | I | the best | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule | to-infinitive | over my people | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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