The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 32
‘The silly creature does not know how to profit by her chances; so much the better for me.’
Who acts: silly creature, chances, creature · What happens: not know, profit, chance
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 (silly creature, chances, creature), 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 | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creature | det |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 to | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 profit | case |
| 10 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 chances | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chances | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 profit | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 better | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 better | det |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 know | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 better | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | the silly creature | to profit by creature's chances | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | profit | creature's chances | nom profit «possession intransitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 3 | chance | creature | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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