The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 94
But my plain little home-made ship is not grand enough for a king.
Who acts: plain little made ship · What happens: make, not be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plain little made ship), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grand | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ship | nmod:poss |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ship | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ship | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 home | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ship | amod |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grand | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grand | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 grand | advmod |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 grand | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grand | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | my plain little made ship | for a king; enough, grand property | tree rules |
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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