The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 17
‘You can’t think what a piece of good luck has come our way.’
Who acts: You, piece · What happens: not think, come · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, piece), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 come | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 luck | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | can | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | a piece of good luck | our way | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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