The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 95
“Look carefully at the state to which your wickedness has brought you; believe me, your soul is a thousand times more hideous than your body.”
Who acts: you, soul · What happens: look, bring, believe, be · To what, where: wickedness, voice
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, soul), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 brought | obl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 state | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hideous | punct |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hideous | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hideous | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thousand | det |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hideous | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 hideous | advmod |
| 25 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 believe | parataxis |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hideous | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | at the state; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your wickedness | to the state | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a voice = voice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | your soul | time | than your body; hideous property | tree rules |
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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