The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 107

‘You must admit that I have had plenty of time on my hands, so you cannot be surprised at my spending some of it in making myself smart.’

Who acts: You, I, my · What happens: admit, have, not be, spend, make · To what, where: plenty, some, myself

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (You, I, my), 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 admit	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 admit	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 admit	aux
4	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 admit	ccomp
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plenty	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 time	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surprised	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 surprised	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 surprised	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 surprised	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 surprised	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 surprised	cop
21	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 admit	parataxis
22	at	at	SCONJ	_	24 spending	mark
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 spending	nsubj
24	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 surprised	advcl
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 spending	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 some	nmod
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 making	mark
29	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 spending	advcl
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 making	obj
31	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 making	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 admit	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 admit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	must	You			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present · perfect	I	plenty of time on my hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
3	not is	can	you		surprised property	tree rules
4	spend	gerund	my	some		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset
5	make	gerund	my not said here	myself	smart property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset myself=Product

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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