The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 23
‘You have a very nice appearance, and a peculiar head; but it is too small!
Who acts: You, appearance · What happens: have, be · To what, where: nice appearance
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, appearance), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 appearance | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 nice | advmod |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 appearance | amod |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 head | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 head | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 11 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | compound |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 small | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 small | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 small | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 small | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | a nice appearance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | appearance | small 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 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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