The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 43

You are a clever and practical man, but about poetry you understand as much as that old tub over there!’

Who acts: You · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: clever man, much

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 practical	cc
6	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 understand	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 understand	cc
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 poetry	case
11	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 understand	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 understand	nsubj
13	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 understand	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 tub	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 tub	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tub	amod
19	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 much	nmod
20	over	over	ADV	_	21 there	advmod
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 understand	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a clever man					tree rules
2	understand	present	you	much		there		about poetry; as that old tub	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as tub=Attribute

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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