The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 33
You are quite big enough to support yourselves now.’
Who acts: You · What happens: be, support · To what, where: yourselves
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 big | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 big | advmod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 big | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 support | mark |
| 7 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 big | advcl |
| 8 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 support | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 support | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | support | to-infinitive | You not said here | yourselves | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourselves=Stimulus |
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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