The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 14
‘You are right,’ said the goose, ‘in supposing I was not born in this horrid shape.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, say, suppose, not bear · To what, where: goose, I, horrid shape · 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 (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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goose | det |
| 9 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 supposing | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 13 supposing | cc |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 supposing | mark |
| 13 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 born | advmod |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 supposing | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 shape | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 shape | det |
| 20 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shape | amod |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 born | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the goose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goose=Topic | |||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not bear | past · passive | I | this horrid shape | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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