The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 56
He’s only a bear-keeper, and as poor as any church mouse.’
Who acts: brother · What happens: be · To what, where: bear keeper
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keeper | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keeper | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 keeper | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 keeper | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeper | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 7 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poor | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poor | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 poor | advmod |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keeper | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 mouse | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 mouse | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouse | compound |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poor | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeper | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | brother | a bear keeper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | brother not said here | as any church mouse | 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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