The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 20
‘Yes, all that you say is true, but we have no children.’
Who acts: you, all, we · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
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, all, we), 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 | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 true | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 say | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | all | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | we | 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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