The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 68
‘The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete--as I expected.’
Who acts: Suzeraine, I · What happens: make, not be, expect · To what, where: dish
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 (Suzeraine, I), 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 | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dish | det |
| 3 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 nicely | advmod |
| 6 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 complete | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 complete | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Suzeraine | det |
| 11 | Suzeraine | Suzeraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 complete | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 complete | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 complete | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 complete | advmod |
| 15 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | parataxis |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 expected | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 expected | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 expected | nsubj |
| 19 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 complete | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the dish | nicely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | the Suzeraine | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | past | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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