The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 40
“Though your nose is so ridiculous you are, nevertheless, the son of my best friend.
Who acts: nose · What happens: be
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 2 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 ridiculous | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nose | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ridiculous | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ridiculous | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ridiculous | advmod |
| 7 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ridiculous | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ridiculous | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nevertheless | punct |
| 11 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 7 ridiculous | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ridiculous | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | your nose | nevertheless, ridiculous 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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