The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 75
You won’t be the first we have cured of laziness.
Who acts: You, we · What happens: not be, cure
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 first | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 first | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 first | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cured | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cured | aux |
| 9 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 first | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 laziness | case |
| 11 | laziness | laziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cured | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | You | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure | present · perfect | we | of laziness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer of laziness=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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