The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 40
‘If you wish to buy, please make haste, as you are keeping other customers away.’
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, buy, make, keep away · To what, where: haste, other customers
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 | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 buy | mark |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 make | discourse |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 keeping | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 keeping | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeping | aux |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 make | advcl |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 customers | amod |
| 17 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keeping | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keeping | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | keep away | present · progressive | you | other customers | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Theme |
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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