The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 7
The queen looked at her doubtfully, and answered: ‘You do not seem as if you had been very lucky yourself, or to have much good fortune to spare for anyone else.’
Who acts: queen, You · What happens: look, answer, not seem, be, have, spare · To what, where: good fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 doubtfully | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 doubtfully | nmod:poss |
| 6 | doubtfully | doubtfully | ADV | _ | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seem | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 seem | advmod |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 lucky | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 lucky | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 lucky | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lucky | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 lucky | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 lucky | advmod |
| 22 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seem | ccomp |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 lucky | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 have | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seem | conj |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 good | advmod |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fortune | amod |
| 30 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 spare | mark |
| 32 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fortune | acl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 anyone | case |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 spare | obl |
| 35 | else | else | ADV | _ | 34 anyone | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at doubtfully=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not seem | present · do-support | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | yourself obl; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | You not said here | good fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 6 | spare | to-infinitive | You not said here | good fortune not said here | for anyone | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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 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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