The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 150

Though we have the bodies of men, we are not men at all, though it is not easy for you to understand why.

Who acts: we, you · What happens: have, not be, understand · To what, where: bodies, men, all

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 (we, 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 men	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bodies	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 men	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 men	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 men	advmod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 men	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 easy	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 easy	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 easy	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 easy	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 easy	advmod
20	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	conj
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 understand	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 understand	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 understand	mark
24	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 easy	csubj
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 understand	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	the bodies of men			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	not is a	present	we	men	all		tree rules
3	not is	present	we not said here			easy property	tree rules
4	understand	to-infinitive	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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