The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 110
Yes, those are the exact materials, but we never used the herb heal-well, which, I am sure, must be an improvement.’
Who acts: those, we, I, exact materials · What happens: be, not use, heal · To what, where: exact materials, herb, improvement
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 (those, we, I, exact materials), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 materials | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 materials | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 materials | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 materials | det |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 materials | amod |
| 7 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 improvement | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 used | advmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 materials | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 herb | det |
| 14 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obj |
| 15 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 17 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 23 sure | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 which | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | cop |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heal | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 materials | punct |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 improvement | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 improvement | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 improvement | det |
| 28 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 improvement | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 improvement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | those | the exact materials | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not use | past | we | the herb | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent herb=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | heal | infinitive | we not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | must | the exact materials | a improvement | 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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