The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 29
‘Will not children be a burden to you?
Who acts: children · What happens: not be · To what, where: burden, you
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 (children), 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 | _ | 7 burden | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 burden | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 burden | advmod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burden | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 burden | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 burden | det |
| 7 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 burden | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 burden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | future | children | a burden | you | 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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