The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 62
“You shall not wait another minute, you are so polite, and in spite of the enormous size of your nose you are really very agreeable.”
Who acts: You · What happens: not wait, be, spite · To what, where: spite, enormous size
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), 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 | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 minute | det |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 polite | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 polite | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 polite | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 polite | advmod |
| 12 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 agreeable | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 agreeable | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spite | case |
| 16 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 agreeable | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 size | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 size | det |
| 19 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 size | amod |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spite | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 nose | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 size | nmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 agreeable | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 agreeable | cop |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 agreeable | advmod |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 agreeable | advmod |
| 28 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 polite | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait in a quote | shall | You | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | spite of the enormous size of your nose | agreeable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spite in a quote | the enormous size of your nose | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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