The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 7
‘I believe these bracelets are worth as much as my kingdom.
Who acts: I, bracelets · What happens: believe, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, bracelets), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 bracelets | det |
| 5 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worth | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | cop |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 worth | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this bracelets | worth property | 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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