The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 17
‘Look here, sonny: if we share this cake we shall neither of us have enough.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: look, share, have · To what, where: sonny, cake, enough
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sonny | punct |
| 5 | sonny | sonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 share | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 share | nsubj |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | parataxis |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 cake | det |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 share | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 have | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 neither | nmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 share | parataxis |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | sonny | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | share a condition, not said to happen | present | we | this cake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | we | enough | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |
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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