The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 72
People of that sort praise us to our faces without shame, and hide our faults or change them into virtues.
Who acts: People, our · What happens: praise, hide, change, fault · To what, where: us, faults, virtues
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 (People, our), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 praise | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sort | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sort | det |
| 4 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 praise | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 faces | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 faces | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 praise | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 shame | case |
| 11 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 praise | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hide | cc |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 praise | parataxis |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 faults | nmod:poss |
| 16 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hide | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 change | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 virtues | case |
| 21 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | infinitive | People of that sort | us | to our faces; without shame | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme to face=be' | |||
| 2 | hide | present | our faults | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | |||||
| 3 | change | infinitive | faults = fault | into virtues result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into virtue=Result | ||||
| 4 | fault | our | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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