The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 69
And you shall be a clever cook too, but the real herb--no, the REAL herb you’ll never find.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: clever cook, REAL herb
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cook | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 cook | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cook | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cook | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cook | det |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cook | amod |
| 7 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 cook | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 herb | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 herb | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 herb | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 herb | amod |
| 13 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cook | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 herb | punct |
| 15 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 herb | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 herb | det |
| 18 | REAL | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 herb | amod |
| 19 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 herb | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 find | advmod |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 herb | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | you | a clever cook but the real herb and the REAL herb | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | future | you | the REAL herb not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic |
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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