The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 90
Like a snake, you have ungratefully turned upon one who was a second father to you; your churlishness has made you like a bull.
Who acts: you, one · What happens: turn, be, make · To what, where: you, churlishness
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, one), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 snake | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux |
| 7 | ungratefully | ungratefully | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 father | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 father | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 father | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 father | amod |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 churlishness | nmod:poss |
| 20 | churlishness | churlishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 bull | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bull | det |
| 26 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | you | like a snake; ungratefully property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | one | you | upon a second father | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | present · perfect · passive | your churlishness | like a bull | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Product |
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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