The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 102
“Well, it must be admitted that my nose _is_ too long!”
What happens: admit · To what, where: nose
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 admitted | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 admitted | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 admitted | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admitted | aux:pass |
| 7 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 nose | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admitted | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 nose | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 _ | cop |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 admitted | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 admitted | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 admitted | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 admitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other in a quote | must · passive | nose | my nose obl; long property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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