The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 11
Are your subjects discontented? or have we given you cause for displeasure?
Who acts: we, you · What happens: discontent, give, cause · To what, where: subjects
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 discontented | aux:pass |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 3 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discontented | nsubj |
| 4 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 discontented | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 given | cc |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discontented | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 cause | nsubj |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 displeasure | case |
| 13 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 discontented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discontent | present · passive | your subjects | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | we | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | you | for displeasure | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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