The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 23

I have plenty of jewels, it is true, but nothing remarkable enough to catch Turritella’s fancy.’

Who acts: I, plenty, Turritella · What happens: have, be, catch, fancy · To what, where: plenty, fancy

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, plenty, Turritella), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 jewels	case
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plenty	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 nothing	cc
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 true	conj
13	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 remarkable	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 remarkable	advcl
17	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fancy	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Turritella	case
19	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	plenty of jewels		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	is	present	plenty		true property	tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	plenty not said here	Turritella's fancy		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
4	fancy		Turritella			nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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