The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 54

Not large enough to draw attention, of course; but it might come in handy.'

Who acts: attention · What happens: draw, come in · To what, where: attention

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attention), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 large	advmod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 large	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 draw	mark
5	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 large	advcl
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 draw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 course	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 course	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 draw	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 large	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 come	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	to-infinitive		attention				of course	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent attention=Theme of course=Initial_Location
2	come in	might	attention					handy property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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