The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 14
Your happiness is spoilt because you have no children.’
Who acts: you · What happens: spoil, have · To what, where: happiness, children
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 4 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoilt | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoilt | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present · passive | Your happiness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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