The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 52

Do you know that you are a dwarf--that you are so ugly that one cannot bear to look at you--and that I should have killed you myself long before this if you had been worthy of such a glorious death?”

Who acts: you, one · What happens: know, be, not bear, look, kill · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 dwarf	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dwarf	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dwarf	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dwarf	det
8	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 know	ccomp
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 ugly	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ugly	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 ugly	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ugly	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 ugly	advmod
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dwarf	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 bear	mark
16	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bear	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bear	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bear	advmod
19	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ugly	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bear	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 look	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 killed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 killed	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 killed	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 killed	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 killed	aux
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 killed	obj
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 killed	obl:unmarked
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 killed	advmod
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 this	case
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 killed	obl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 worthy	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 worthy	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 worthy	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 worthy	cop
40	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 killed	advcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 death	case
42	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	45 death	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 death	det
44	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 death	amod
45	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 worthy	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	you			dwarf property	tree rules
3	is	present	you			ugly property	tree rules
4	not bear	can	one				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look	to-infinitive	one not said here			at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
6	kill	should · perfect · passive		I	before this	myself obl:unmarked; long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			of such glorious death; worthy 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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