The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 97
A few hours, more or less, can’t make any difference.’
Who acts: few hours · What happens: not make · To what, where: difference
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few hours), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hours | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 more | punct |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 hours | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 less | cc |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 more | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hours | punct |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 difference | det |
| 13 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | a few hours | any difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
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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