The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 32
Shall I make you a pair of slippers, or perhaps’ with a smile--‘a case for your nose?’
Who acts: I · What happens: make · To what, where: pair, you
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 (I), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 slippers | case |
| 8 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smile | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 smile | cc |
| 11 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 smile | advmod |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 perhaps | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 case | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 case | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 case | det |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smile | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 nose | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nose | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 case | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | shall | I | a pair of slippers | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary pair=Product |
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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