The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 41
I have a good piece of business in hand which may turn out well for us.”
Who acts: I, good piece · What happens: have, turn out · To what, where: good piece
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, good piece), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 business | case |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 business | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 piece | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 turn | compound:prt |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 turn | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a good piece of business in hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn out | may | a good piece of business in hand | for us; well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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