The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 46
But never mind, one may be a very worthy man though his nose is too long.
Who acts: you, one, nose · What happens: not mind, be · To what, where: worthy man
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, one, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 mind | cc |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 man | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 worthy | advmod |
| 10 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 long | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | may | one | a worthy man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | man's nose | long 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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