The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 43
‘What a fool my brother was not to take more heed!
Who acts: brother · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fool | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fool | det |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fool | acl:relcl |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 heed | amod |
| 12 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | my brother | take property | 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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