The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 6

My gains are all at the bottom of the sea—well! lightly won, lightly lost—but it is odd that I feel I should not care for that if only my pipes were left me.”

Who acts: gains, money, I · What happens: be, win, lose, feel, not care, leave · To what, where: bottom, pipes, me

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gains, money, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gains	nmod:poss
2	gains	gain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bottom	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bottom	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 bottom	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 won	punct
12	well	well	INTJ	_	15 won	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	15 won	advmod
15	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bottom	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
17	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	18 lost	advmod
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 won	xcomp
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 odd	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 odd	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 odd	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 odd	cop
23	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lost	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 feel	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 feel	nsubj
26	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 odd	advcl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 care	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 care	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 care	advmod
30	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 feel	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 that	case
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 care	obl
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 left	mark
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 pipes	advmod
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pipes	nmod:poss
36	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 left	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 left	aux:pass
38	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 care	advcl
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 left	iobj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bottom	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 bottom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	My gains			the bottom	of the sea; all property	tree rules
2	win	past					lightly property	tree rules
3	lose	participle					lightly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	money				odd property	tree rules
5	feel	present	I					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not care	should	I				for that	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for that=Theme
7	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		my pipes	me			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme i=Attribute

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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