The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 8
You see it is not difficult to do if you really care for me.”
Who acts: You · What happens: see, not be, do, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 difficult | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 difficult | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 see | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 difficult | csubj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 care | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 care | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 care | advmod |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 care | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | care a condition, not said to happen | present | you | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=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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