The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 57
Only, in one point you are mistaken, and it would be wrong of me to take advantage of your ignorance.
Who acts: it, your · What happens: be, take, ignore · To what, where: advantage
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, your), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 8 mistaken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 point | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 point | nummod |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mistaken | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mistaken | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 8 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wrong | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wrong | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wrong | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wrong | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wrong | cop |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mistaken | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wrong | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wrong | csubj |
| 19 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ignorance | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ignorance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advantage | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | it | of me; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | advantage of your ignorance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ignore | your | nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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