The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 37
As it is, you must be constantly knocking up against things.’
Who acts: protection, you · What happens: be
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, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knocking | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 knocking | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 knocking | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knocking | cop |
| 8 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 9 knocking | advmod |
| 9 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 knocking | compound:prt |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knocking | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knocking | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 knocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | protection | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | must | you | against things; constantly, knock property | 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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