The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 13
See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs!
Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: lovely cabbages
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 cabbages | det |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cabbages | amod |
| 4 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 herbs | cc |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 herbs | det |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 herbs | amod |
| 8 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cabbages | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | this lovely cabbages and this fresh herbs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus |
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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