The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 101
‘I do believe this is the very herb which changed me from a squirrel into my present miserable form.
Who acts: I, this, herb, my · What happens: believe, be, change, form · To what, where: herb, me, present miserable form · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, herb, my), 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 | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 herb | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 herb | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 herb | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 herb | advmod |
| 9 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 herb | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 squirrel | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 squirrel | det |
| 15 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 form | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 form | nmod:poss |
| 18 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 form | amod |
| 19 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 form | amod |
| 20 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | the herb | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | past | the herb | me | into my present miserable form result; from a squirrel | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient from squirrel=Initial_State into form=Result | |||
| 4 | form | my | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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