The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 9
“Has anyone failed to treat you with due respect?”
Who acts: anyone · What happens: fail, not treat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone), 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 | _ | 4 failed | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 failed | aux |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 treat | mark |
| 6 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 failed | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 treat | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 respect | case |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 respect | amod |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treat | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail in a quote | present · perfect | anyone | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not treat in a quote | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | you | with due respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with respect=Theme |
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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