The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 89
‘It makes a great difference in one’s ideas to be dying of hunger and thirst on a desert island.’
Who acts: light · What happens: make, die · To what, where: great difference, one ideas
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 makes | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 difference | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 difference | amod |
| 6 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ideas | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ideas | nummod |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 one | case |
| 10 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dying | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dying | aux |
| 13 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 makes | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hunger | case |
| 15 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dying | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thirst | cc |
| 17 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunger | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 20 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 island | compound |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thirst | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | light | a great difference | one ideas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product | |||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive · progressive | light not said here | of hunger and thirst on a desert island | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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