The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 115
I will now take you back to your father, who will certainly know how to disenchant you.’
Who acts: I, father · What happens: take back, know, disenchant · To what, where: you, father · 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, father), 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 | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 father | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 disenchant | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 disenchant | mark |
| 17 | disenchant | disenchant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 disenchant | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | future | I | you | your father | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | future | your father | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | disenchant | to-infinitive | you | tree rules |
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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