The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 132
He has brought us good luck, and there is no knowing how great we may become!
Who acts: fish, we · What happens: bring, be, know, become · To what, where: good luck, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 is | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 knowing | det |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 is | advcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 become | advcl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 become | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knowing | ccomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | fish | good luck | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination luck=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | fish not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | fish not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | may | we | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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