The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 44
Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his.
Who acts: I, you, barber · What happens: have, ask, live, lend · To what, where: none, one, barber, Urban, way, 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, you, barber), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | ccomp |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | parataxis |
| 18 | Urban | Urban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 barber | det |
| 20 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 barber | acl:relcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lend | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 lend | mark |
| 29 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ask | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 lend | obj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lend | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | none | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | must | you | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | you | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the barber | Urban | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | present | the barber | the way | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over way=Location | ||||
| 6 | lend | to-infinitive | barber | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient his=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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