The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 16

“If my son has such a long nose as that,” he said to himself, “he must always see it or feel it; at least, if he is not blind or without hands.”

Who acts: son · What happens: have, say, see, feel, not be · To what, where: long nose, son, nose, least · 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 (son), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 has	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 nose	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nose	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nose	amod
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 nose	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 feel	cc
26	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 feel	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 blind	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 blind	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blind	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 blind	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 blind	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 blind	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 blind	advmod
36	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 hands	cc
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 hands	case
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 blind	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	my son	such long nose			as that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	son		son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	see in a quote	must	son	nose			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	feel in a quote	infinitive	son not said here	nose				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	son			least	blind property	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 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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