The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 75

‘His wicked pranks do not make him rich, certainly,’ said the ox, ‘and he isn’t even clever enough to have found out what a piece of luck might befall him a week hence.’

Who acts: wicked pranks, wizard, piece · What happens: not make, say, not be, find out, befall · To what, where: wizard, ox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked pranks, wizard, piece), 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	_	7 make	punct
2	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pranks	nmod:poss
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pranks	amod
4	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 certainly	punct
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ox	det
16	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	24 clever	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clever	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clever	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 clever	cop
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 clever	advmod
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 clever	advmod
24	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	parataxis
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 clever	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	28 found	mark
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 found	aux
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 clever	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 found	compound:prt
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 befall	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 piece	det
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 befall	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 luck	case
34	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piece	nmod
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 befall	aux
36	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 clever	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 befall	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 week	det
39	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 befall	obl:unmarked
40	hence	hence	ADV	_	36 befall	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	wizard's wicked pranks	wizard		certainly, rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	say speech: assert	past		the ox			tree rules
3	not is	present	wizard			clever, enough property	tree rules
4	find out	to-infinitive · perfect	wizard not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	befall	might	a piece of luck	wizard	week	hence 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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