The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 86
You have despised my counsel, and have gone your own evil way until you are only outwardly a man; really you are a monster--the horror of everyone who knows you.
Who acts: You · What happens: despise, go, be, know · To what, where: counsel, own evil way, monster, you
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 despised | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 despised | aux |
| 3 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 despised | parataxis |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 outwardly | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 outwardly | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 outwardly | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 outwardly | advmod |
| 18 | outwardly | outwardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gone | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 outwardly | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 monster | punct |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 monster | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 monster | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 monster | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 monster | det |
| 26 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despised | parataxis |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 horror | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horror | det |
| 29 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 monster | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 everyone | case |
| 31 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 horror | nmod |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 knows | nsubj |
| 33 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 knows | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 despised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | present · perfect | You | my counsel | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive · perfect | your own evil way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | outwardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | a monster | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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