More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 15
Hinny, it's a fine thing to have such good luck."
Who acts: Hinny · What happens: be, have · To what, where: fine thing, such good luck
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hinny), 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 | Hinny | hinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hinny | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | acl |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 luck | amod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 luck | amod |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hinny | a fine thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | such good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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