The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 144
You cannot be pope; there is only one pope in Christendom, and he cannot make you that.’
Who acts: You, one pope, pope · What happens: not be, be, not make · To what, where: pope, Christendom, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, one pope, pope), 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 | 5 pope | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pope | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pope | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pope | cop |
| 5 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pope | parataxis |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pope | nummod |
| 11 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Christendom | case |
| 13 | Christendom | Christendom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 is | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pope | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pope | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 5 pope | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | can | You | pope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | one pope | Christendom; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in christendom=Location | ||||
| 3 | not make | can | pope | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
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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