The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 35
If you want to melt down gold and precious stones, do so.
Who acts: you · What happens: want, melt down, do · To what, where: gold
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 melt | mark |
| 5 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 melt | compound:prt |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melt | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stones | cc |
| 9 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | melt down not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | gold and precious stones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gold=Result | ||||
| 3 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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