The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 6
‘My son, do not follow after empty knowledge, which will not bring you happiness, but rather evil.
Who acts: son, empty knowledge · What happens: not follow, not bring · To what, where: happiness, you
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 (son, empty knowledge), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 follow | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 follow | advmod |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 knowledge | case |
| 9 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knowledge | amod |
| 10 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bring | advmod |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knowledge | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 evil | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 evil | cc |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 21 evil | advmod |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 follow | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | infinitive · do-support | My son | after empty knowledge | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not bring | future | empty knowledge | happiness | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination happiness=Theme |
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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