The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 121
“Fortune is so capricious, you can never count on her.
Who acts: Fortune, you · What happens: be, not count
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fortune, you), 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 | _ | 5 capricious | punct |
| 2 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 capricious | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 capricious | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 capricious | advmod |
| 5 | capricious | capricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 count | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 count | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 count | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 count | advmod |
| 10 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 capricious | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 count | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 capricious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Fortune | capricious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not count in a quote | can | you | on Last | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on she=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 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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