The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 141
I have no news, except that if you will open your mouth you shall see what dates taste like.’
Who acts: I, you, dates · What happens: have, open, see, taste · To what, where: news, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. 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, dates), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 news | det |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 open | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | aux |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 taste | obj |
| 18 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taste | nsubj |
| 19 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 taste | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no news | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | taste | present | dates | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |
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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