The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 51
No wonder you are rather vain; but look as long as you like at yourself.’
Who acts: wonder, you · What happens: be, look, like
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 (wonder, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 wonder | det |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vain | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 vain | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vain | cop |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 vain | advmod |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 vain | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 look | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 yourself | case |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 like | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vain | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no wonder | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | like | present | you | at yourself | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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