The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 22
‘Look here, my friend, you are a poor man.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, be · To what, where: poor man
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | vocative |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | here | my friend vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a poor man | 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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