The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 67

How stupid people are not to see their own faults!

Who acts: stupid people, people · What happens: not be, fault

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid people, people), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 stupid	advmod
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faults	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faults	amod
10	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	stupid people					see property	tree rules
2	fault		people						nom fault «act 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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