The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 11
If you would only believe, it is far better for you to know nothing.’
Who acts: you, it · What happens: believe, be, know · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 better | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | cop |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 better | advmod |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 better | csubj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | would | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | far, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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