The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 79
‘Are you not ashamed to urge me to break my word?’ said he.
Who acts: you, Hans, my · What happens: not be, urge, break, say, word · To what, where: me, word · 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, Hans, my), 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 ashamed | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ashamed | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 urge | mark |
| 7 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ashamed | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 urge | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 break | mark |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 urge | xcomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 word | nmod:poss |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 break | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | urge | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | my word | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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