The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 64
However, he could not dismiss the thought from his mind, and next morning he rose very early, for he felt he must go and look at his daughter’s husband and see whether he really was nothing better than a mere ragged beggar.
Who acts: brother · What happens: not dismiss, rise, feel, go, look, see · To what, where: thought, mind, better, nothing
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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 dismiss | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dismiss | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dismiss | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dismiss | advmod |
| 6 | dismiss | dismiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dismiss | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dismiss | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rose | cc |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rose | nsubj |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dismiss | parataxis |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 early | advmod |
| 19 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 rose | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 felt | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 felt | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rose | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 felt | ccomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 husband | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 33 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 see | cc |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 36 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 41 better | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 better | nsubj |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 40 nothing | advmod |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 nothing | cop |
| 40 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 he | conj |
| 41 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 see | obl |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 beggar | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 beggar | det |
| 44 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 beggar | compound |
| 45 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beggar | amod |
| 46 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 better | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dismiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dismiss | could | brother | the thought | brother's mind | however property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thought=Theme from mind=Source | ||
| 2 | rise | past | brother | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | feel | past | brother | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | must | brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | brother not said here | at brother's daughter's husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at husband=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | brother not said here | better | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | brother not said here | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | mind | brother | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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