The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 144

Now, most people throw them away, and that only shows what a number of things are wasted for want of a little patience and ingenuity.’

Who acts: most people · What happens: throw away, show, waste, want · To what, where: pears, number, little patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most people), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 throw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 throw	nsubj
5	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 throw	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shows	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shows	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 shows	mark
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 shows	advmod
12	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 throw	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 wasted	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wasted	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wasted	aux:pass
19	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shows	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 want	case
21	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wasted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 patience	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 patience	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 patience	amod
25	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ingenuity	cc
27	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 patience	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	present	most people	pears = pear	now	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	show	present	most people not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	waste	present · passive		a number of things		for want of a little patience and ingenuity	tree rules
4	want			a little patience and ingenuity			nom want «state transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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