The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 49

‘Things are never as bad as they look.

Who acts: Things, grave · What happens: not be, look

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, grave), 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	_	6 bad	punct
2	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 bad	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Things					bad property	tree rules
2	look	present	grave						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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