The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 43

‘Young gentleman,’ was the answer, ‘your appearance is hardly one to be vain of, and there is no need to waste your time looking in a glass.

Who acts: Young gentleman, appearance, need, time · What happens: be, waste, look · To what, where: answer

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 (Young gentleman, appearance, need, time), 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 gentleman	punct
2	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gentleman	amod
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answer	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gentleman	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gentleman	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answer	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 answer	det
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answer	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 vain	punct
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 appearance	nmod:poss
12	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vain	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 vain	cop
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vain	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 vain	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 vain	cop
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answer	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 vain	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 is	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 is	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answer	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 need	det
25	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 waste	mark
27	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 need	acl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 time	nmod:poss
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waste	obj
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 time	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 glass	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 glass	det
33	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Young gentleman	the answer				tree rules
2	is	present	your appearance				vain property	tree rules
3	be	present	no need		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	waste	to-infinitive	no need not said here			time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund	your time not said here				in a glass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=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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