The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 17
Are not your trees as full of fruit as your hives are full of bees?
Who acts: trees · What happens: be
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 (trees), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 trees | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 trees | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 full | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fruit | case |
| 8 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 hives | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hives | hive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fruit | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bees | case |
| 15 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your trees as full | of bees; full 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 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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