The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 14
You shall have a son, who will never be happy until he finds out that his nose is too long, and if you ever tell anyone what I have just said to you, you shall vanish away instantly, and no one shall ever see you or hear of you again.”
Who acts: You, son, king, nose, I, one · What happens: have, not be, find out, be, tell, say · To what, where: son, anyone, you · 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, son, king, nose), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 happy | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 happy | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happy | cop |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | parataxis |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 finds | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finds | nsubj |
| 14 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 finds | compound:prt |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 long | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 finds | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tell | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 tell | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | nsubj |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 tell | advmod |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 finds | conj |
| 28 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 tell | obj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 said | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 said | aux |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 said | advmod |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 said | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 vanish | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 vanish | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 vanish | aux |
| 39 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tell | ccomp |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 vanish | advmod |
| 41 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 39 vanish | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 see | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 see | cc |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 see | aux |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 see | advmod |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 see | obj |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 hear | cc |
| 51 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 see | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 you | case |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 hear | obl |
| 54 | again | again | ADV | _ | 51 hear | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | a son | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find out | present | king | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | king's nose | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | anyone | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | I | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to you=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | vanish away | shall | you | away, instantly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | shall | no one | you | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | hear | infinitive | no one not said here | again | of you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of you=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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