The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 79

‘It is a good thing to be steeled against sea-sickness; here one has indeed an advantage over man!

Who acts: contrast, one · What happens: be, steel, have · To what, where: good thing, advantage

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrast, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 steeled	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 steeled	aux:pass
9	steeled	steel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thing	acl
10	against	against	ADP	_	13 sickness	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sickness	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sea	punct
13	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steeled	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	conj
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 has	advmod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 advantage	det
20	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 man	case
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	contrast	a good thing		tree rules
2	steel	to-infinitive · passive			against sea sickness	tree rules
3	have	present	one	a advantage	over man; indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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