The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 38
‘Then you sha’n’t have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.’
Who acts: you, head, it · What happens: not have, stick, be, not fall off · To what, where: any, shoulders
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, head, it), 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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | sha’ | sha' | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuck | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stuck | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 12 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 have | parataxis |
| 13 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stuck | advmod |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 shoulders | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stuck | obl |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 sure | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sure | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 sure | advmod |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stuck | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fall | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fall | mark |
| 26 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 fall | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | infinitive | you | any | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | |||
| 2 | stick | participle | a head | your shoulders | close property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme between shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | may | it | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fall off | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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