The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 107
You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body.
Who acts: You, self love · What happens: see, keep, know · To what, where: us, own defects · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (You, self love), 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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 keeps | advmod |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 keeps | obj |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 knowing | mark |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keeps | advcl |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 defects | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 defects | amod |
| 13 | defects | defect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knowing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 defects | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 body | cc |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mind | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | self love | us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | self love not said here | our own defects of mind and body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer defect=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 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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