The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 84

'Well, I can't be in a worse plight than I am already, so I will take your advice.'

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, be, take · To what, where: worse plight, advice

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 plight	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 plight	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 plight	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 plight	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 plight	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 plight	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 plight	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plight	det
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 plight	amod
11	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 already	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 already	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 already	cop
15	already	already	ADV	_	11 plight	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 take	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 already	conj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 advice	nmod:poss
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 plight	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 plight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	can	I		a worse plight		tree rules
2	is	present	I			already property	tree rules
3	take	future	I	your advice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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