The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 105
Not that you will be able to make the dumplings, for they are a secret receipt.’
Who acts: you, dumplings · What happens: not be, make, be · To what, where: dumplings
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dumplings), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 able | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dumplings | det |
| 10 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 receipt | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 receipt | case |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 receipt | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 receipt | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 receipt | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 receipt | amod |
| 17 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | the dumplings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dumpling=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | dumplings = dumpling | for a secret receipt | 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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