The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 10
Only you will need more than a man’s courage to bear the sight.’
Who acts: you · What happens: need, bear · To what, where: more, sight
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 courage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 courage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bear | mark |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 courage | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | future | you | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | you not said here | the sight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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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