The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 33
‘What have you to do with my nose?’ asked Jem.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, do, ask · To what, where: Jem · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 have | obj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nose | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | with my nose | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Jem | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient clause=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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