The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 10
“You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift.”
Who acts: You, good woman · What happens: be, not help, give · To what, where: gift, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, good woman), 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 | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pretty | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pretty | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 9 dear | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mannerly | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 mannerly | advmod |
| 15 | mannerly | mannerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dear | conj |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 help | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 giving | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gift | det |
| 25 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help in a quote | can | the good woman = woman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | the good woman = woman not said here | a gift | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gift=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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