The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 83
‘Oh, is that all,’ said she, ‘then I can help you, for my father taught me to know all plants and herbs.
Who acts: all, I, father · What happens: say, help, teach, know · To what, where: you, me, plants · 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 (all, I, father), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 all | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 all | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 all | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 help | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taught | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 taught | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taught | nsubj |
| 22 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 taught | iobj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taught | xcomp |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 plants | det |
| 27 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 know | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 herbs | cc |
| 29 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 plants | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help | can | I | you | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | my father | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | my father not said here | all plants and herbs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus |
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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