The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 86

‘Well, as you will; but believe me, you would have an easier place as the grand ducal dwarf.’

Who acts: you · What happens: believe, have · To what, where: me, easier place

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	_	9 believe	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 will	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 will	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 will	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 believe	aux
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 believe	cc
9	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 believe	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 believe	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	22 dwarf	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dwarf	det
20	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dwarf	amod
21	ducal	ducal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dwarf	amod
22	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	future			me				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	have	would	you	a easier place				as the grand ducal dwarf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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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