The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 145
‘You do not take after those fools, those good-for-nothings.
Who acts: You · What happens: not take · To what, where: good nothings
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 (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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 fools | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 fools | det |
| 8 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothings | punct |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 nothings | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothings | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothings | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 nothings | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 for | punct |
| 15 | nothings | nothing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | present · do-support | You | that good nothings | after that fools | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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