The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 46
The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.”
Who acts: advantage, one · What happens: possess, not be, do, desire · To what, where: great empire, evil, good
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advantage, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 advantage | det |
| 2 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 possessing | mark |
| 4 | possessing | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 advantage | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 empire | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 empire | amod |
| 7 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possessing | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evil | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 desires | mark |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 desires | nsubj |
| 19 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 good | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 good | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 do | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 can | mark |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 can | nsubj |
| 29 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 28 one | advmod |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 good | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | gerund | the advantage not said here | a great empire | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot empire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | the advantage | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the advantage not said here | the evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | desire | present | one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the advantage not said here | all good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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