The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 125
That, dear child, is the dish of hidden blessings, and we cannot taste of it without bringing our happy life here to an end.
Who acts: dear child, we · What happens: be, not taste, bring · To what, where: dish, happy life, end
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 child | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 That | punct |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dish | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dish | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 blessings | case |
| 10 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blessings | amod |
| 11 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dish | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taste | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taste | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 taste | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 taste | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 taste | advmod |
| 17 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dish | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taste | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 bringing | mark |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 taste | advcl |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 bringing | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that dear child | the dish | of hidden blessings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not taste | can | we | of wondering | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | we not said here | our happy life | here | to a end | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme to end=Destination |
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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