The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 119

‘You certainly are a master of the art, little fellow, and the herb heal-well gives a particular relish.’

Who acts: You, herb, master · What happens: be, heal, give · To what, where: master, particular relish

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, herb, master), 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 master	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 master	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 master	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 master	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 art	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 art	det
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 master	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 art	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heal	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 herb	det
16	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heal	nsubj
17	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 master	parataxis
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 well	punct
19	well	well	INTJ	_	17 heal	discourse
20	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 relish	det
22	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 relish	amod
23	relish	relish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gives	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a master	of the art and little fellow; certainly property	tree rules
2	heal	infinitive	the herb			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	present	a master	a particular relish		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relish=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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