The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 16
Perhaps when you have hurt yourself, you may learn to know better.’
Who acts: you · What happens: hurt, learn, know · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 learn | advcl |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 learn | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | aux |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 learn | xcomp |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 know | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · perfect | you | yourself | perhaps property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Patient | |||
| 2 | learn | may | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | you not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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