The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 83
I think you want to be the grand duke’s dwarf, don’t you?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, want, be, not do · To what, where: dwarf, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dwarf | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dwarf | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duke | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 duke | amod |
| 9 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwarf | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 duke | case |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | conj |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the grand duke's dwarf | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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