The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 93
You had better go and wash your face first, your eyes are not clear enough to see him!’
Who acts: You, eyes · What happens: have, be, wash, not be, see · To what, where: face, King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, eyes), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | xcomp |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | cop |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wash | cc |
| 6 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wash | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 wash | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clear | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clear | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 clear | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 clear | advmod |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wash | advcl |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 clear | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 clear | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 wash | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | You not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | You not said here | your face | first property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 4 | not is | present | your eyes | clear, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | your eyes not said here | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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