The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 36
Here is a nice piece; and think what a protection it would be to you.
Who acts: protection · What happens: be, think
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 (protection), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Here | conj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 think | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 protection | det |
| 11 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 you | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 you | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 you | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 you | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 what | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | would | a protection | to you | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/36/