The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 27
What you find in the dust-heaps is not enough for both of us.’
Who acts: you · What happens: find, not be · To what, where: dust heaps
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heaps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heaps | det |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heaps | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dust | punct |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 enough | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 enough | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 both | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 enough | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | you | the dust heaps | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | for both; enough 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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