The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 91
Do you suppose our cooking stoves are so low that you can look into any saucepan on them?
Who acts: you, cooking stoves · What happens: suppose, be, look
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, cooking stoves), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stoves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stoves | compound |
| 6 | stoves | stove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 low | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 low | advmod |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 look | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | aux |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 low | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 saucepan | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 saucepan | det |
| 16 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 look | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | our cooking stoves | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | can | you | on stoves = stove; into any saucepan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into saucepan=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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