The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 12

I know better than to hurt so rare a bird.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, hurt · To what, where: rare bird

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), 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 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 know	advmod
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 hurt	mark
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hurt	mark
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	advcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 rare	advmod
8	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hurt	to-infinitive	I not said here	a rare bird					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=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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