The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 103

Then the knight said, ‘It is very strange that the tree should belong to you, and yet that you have not the power to break anything from it!’

Who acts: knight, twig, tree, you · What happens: say, be, belong, not power, break · To what, where: you, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, twig, tree, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strange	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 strange	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strange	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strange	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 strange	advmod
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 belong	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belong	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 belong	aux
15	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 strange	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 belong	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 power	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 power	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 power	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 power	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 power	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 power	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 power	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 power	det
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 break	mark
28	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 power	acl
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 break	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 break	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the knight			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	twig				strange property	tree rules
3	belong	should	the tree		you			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	not power	present	you			yet		tree rules
5	break	to-infinitive	the knight not said here	anything			from twig	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent anything=Patient from it=Co-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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