The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 147
Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmarried, and a far more suitable match for a young and lovely Princess.’
Who acts: I, Highness · What happens: be · To what, where: old man
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Highness), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 young | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 young | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unmarried | cc |
| 16 | unmarried | unmarried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 match | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 match | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 match | det |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 suitable | advmod |
| 22 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 match | amod |
| 23 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Princess | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lovely | cc |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 young | conj |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 match | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a old man | a suitable match for a young Princess nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | your Highness | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | your Highness not said here | 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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