The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 142
“Don’t touch it, my poor little dog--that house is the palace of pleasure, and everything that comes out of it is poisoned!”
Who acts: you, house · What happens: not touch, be, come out, poison · To what, where: cry, palace, everything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, house), 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 touch | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dog | nmod:poss |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 palace | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 palace | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pleasure | case |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 everything | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 everything | cc |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 everything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 comes | obl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 28 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 touch | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | cry | my poor little dog obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that house | the palace | of pleasure | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come out in a quote | present | cry | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||||
| 4 | poison in a quote | present · passive | everything | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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