The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 50
‘You are a pretty youth, with your swan-like neck and white hands and small nose.
Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: pretty youth
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 | _ | 6 youth | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 youth | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 youth | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 youth | amod |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 neck | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 swan | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 neck | amod |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hands | cc |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hands | amod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 neck | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nose | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nose | amod |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hands | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a pretty youth and your like neck and white hands and small nose | 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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