The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 15
‘You know how much we love him, and that he is never out of our sight for five minutes.’
Who acts: You, we, man · What happens: know, love, not be · To what, where: much, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, man), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 love | obj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 love | nsubj |
| 7 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 love | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sight | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sight | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 sight | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | cop |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 sight | advmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 minutes | case |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 minutes | nummod |
| 21 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | love | present | we | much | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | man | our sight | minute | 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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