The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 70
I have, therefore, determined to set you three tasks to do, and the one that performs them best shall be my heir.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: have, set, do, perform, be · To what, where: you, people, heir
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, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 determined | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
| 6 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 set | mark |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tasks | nummod |
| 11 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heir | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heir | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heir | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 performs | nsubj |
| 19 | performs | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 performs | obj |
| 21 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 performs | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 heir | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 heir | cop |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heir | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | determined property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme task=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | perform | present | the one | people | well property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | shall | the one | my heir | tree rules |
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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