The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 106
YOU can’t speak; YOU don’t know how to choose your words.
Who acts: YOU, your · What happens: not speak, not know, choose, word · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU, your), 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 | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 speak | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 choose | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 choose | mark |
| 12 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 choose | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | can | YOU | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | YOU | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | choose | to-infinitive | your words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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