The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 30
‘Now is the time to show what you can really do.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, show, do · To what, where: time · 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 | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 show | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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