The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 58
But, as all poor people may remember for their consolation, nothing in the world causes so much trouble or requires so much care as a great treasure.
Who acts: poor people, people · What happens: remember, cause, require, console · To what, where: much trouble, much care
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor people, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 causes | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remember | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 remember | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 people | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remember | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remember | aux |
| 8 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 causes | nsubj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 consolation | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 consolation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remember | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nothing | punct |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 consolation | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trouble | amod |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 causes | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 requires | cc |
| 22 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 causes | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 care | amod |
| 25 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 requires | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 treasure | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 treasure | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasure | amod |
| 29 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 requires | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | may | all poor people | for people's consolation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | much trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient | |||||
| 3 | require | present | much care | as a great treasure | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme care=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | console | people | nom consolation «feeling 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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