The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 5
‘You have everything you want; why cannot you be merry like other women?’
Who acts: You · What happens: have, want, not be · To what, where: everything
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), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 everything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 merry | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 merry | advmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 merry | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 merry | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 merry | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 merry | cop |
| 13 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 women | case |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 women | amod |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 merry | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | everything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not is | can | you | like other women; merry 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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