The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 127
Oh! how dangerous it is to have more power than the rest of the world!
Who acts: chance · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dangerous | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dangerous | advmod |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dangerous | ccomp |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 power | amod |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 power | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | chance | have 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 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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