The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 76
Like all very old people, she is very obstinate, and cannot bear fresh faces about her.’
Who acts: Creep · What happens: be, not bear · To what, where: fresh faces
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (Creep), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 obstinate | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 obstinate | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 obstinate | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 obstinate | advmod |
| 10 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bear | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bear | advmod |
| 15 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obstinate | conj |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 faces | amod |
| 17 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bear | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bear | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 obstinate | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Creep | like all old people; obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bear | can | Creep not said here | fresh faces | about Creep | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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