The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 37
‘Don’t you like thin necks?’ laughed the old woman.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, like, laugh · To what, where: thin necks, old woman
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 laughed | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 necks | amod |
| 7 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | like | present | you | thin necks | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot neck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the old woman | 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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