The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 8
Knowledge kills joy, therefore think well what you are doing, or some day you will repent.
Who acts: Knowledge, you · What happens: kill, think, do, repent · To what, where: joy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Knowledge, 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 | Knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 kills | parataxis |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 think | advmod |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 doing | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 doing | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 doing | aux |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 think | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 repent | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 repent | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repent | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 repent | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 repent | aux |
| 18 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kills | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Knowledge | joy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | therefore, well property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | repent | future | you | day | tree rules |
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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