The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 34
Get everything you wish and spare nothing.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, wish, spare · To what, where: everything, nothing
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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Get | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 everything | acl:relcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spare | cc |
| 6 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 spare | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | spare | present | you not said here | nothing | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset |
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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