The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 48
“When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.”
Who acts: people, you · What happens: be, not need · To what, where: love, advice, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 much | advmod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 much | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 much | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 much | nmod |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 are | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 you | appos |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 need | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 need | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 need | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 need | advmod |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 much | parataxis |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 need | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 anyone | case |
| 23 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 need | obl |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 23 anyone | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | people | love | with one; much property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not need in a quote | present · do-support | people | advice | anyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme |
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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