The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 99
‘There is no fortune to be made here,’ he thought to himself; ‘it is a place for spending, and not earning.
Who acts: fortune, stick · What happens: be, make, think, not earn · To what, where: fortune, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, stick), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 fortune | det |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fortune | acl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 made | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 thought | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 place | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 spending | case |
| 23 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 earning | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 earning | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 earning | advmod |
| 27 | earning | earn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no fortune | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | no fortune not said here | here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | fortune | fortune | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | stick | a place | for spending | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not earn | gerund | fortune not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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