The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 127
Greed is man’s worst fault.’
Who acts: Greed · What happens: be · To what, where: worst fault
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greed), 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 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | cop |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fault | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fault | amod |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Greed | man's worst fault | tree rules |
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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