The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 34
‘You wretched little shrimp,’ replied Hans, ‘a great deal of good your gratitude is likely to do me!
Who acts: You, wretched little shrimp, gratitude · What happens: shrimp, reply, be, do · To what, where: me
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, wretched little shrimp, gratitude), 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 shrimp | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 shrimp | nsubj |
| 3 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shrimp | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shrimp | amod |
| 5 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrimp | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrimp | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deal | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 deal | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Hans | appos |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 likely | mark |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 likely | amod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 likely | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 likely | cop |
| 20 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 likely | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | iobj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrimp | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | wretched little shrimp | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your gratitude | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | your gratitude not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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