The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 76
‘I was sure you could not make this dish as well as my cook, friend Long Nose.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not make · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dish | det |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 cook | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cook | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Nose | punct |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Nose | compound |
| 18 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Nose | amod |
| 19 | Nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | could | you | this dish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Product |
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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