The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 26
‘I know a little of these matters, and what you say shows me that you are under a herb enchantment--that is to say, that if you can find the herb whose smell woke you up the spell would be broken.’
Who acts: I, you, that, smell · What happens: know, say, show, be, find, wake up · To what, where: little, me, herb enchantment, you, herb · 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, you, that, smell), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 matters | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 matters | det |
| 8 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 little | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shows | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shows | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 enchantment | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 enchantment | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 enchantment | cop |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 enchantment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 enchantment | det |
| 21 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enchantment | compound |
| 22 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 say | nsubj:outer |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 enchantment | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 find | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 find | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 find | aux |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 say | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 herb | det |
| 35 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 37 smell | nmod:poss |
| 37 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 woke | nsubj |
| 38 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 herb | acl:relcl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 woke | obj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 woke | compound:prt |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 spell | det |
| 42 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 woke | obj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 broken | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 broken | aux:pass |
| 45 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 find | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | present | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | you | a herb enchantment | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | that | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | wake up | past | smell | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | break | would · passive | the herb | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «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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