The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 114
Now you see I was right, and perhaps you will learn for the future not to despise any creature, however small.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, be, learn, not despise · To what, where: creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learn | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learn | cc |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 learn | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 learn | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 learn | aux |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 future | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 future | det |
| 15 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learn | obl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 despise | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 despise | mark |
| 18 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learn | conj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 creature | det |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 despise | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 small | punct |
| 22 | however | however | ADV | _ | 23 small | advmod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 despise | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | future | you | for the future; perhaps property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not despise | to-infinitive | you not said here | any creature | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=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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