Did it claim it was going to diagram it correctly? :)
My test was to see if "Have you ever seen a rich man fish?" is parsed the same as "Have you ever seen a red fish?" It is, which is incorrect.
The ambiguity in the structure has to be resolved by knowing there is neither a "rich man fish" or a "man fish"; although there can be a "clown fish" or a "pilot fish".
It also incorrectly parses "When shall we three meet again?" Compare its diagram to "When shall we all meet again?" In the latter, "all" is described as an "appositional modifier" to "we", but in the former, it is a "number modifier" to "meet".
"the red cup and saucer on the table" parses as
the (red cup) on the table and saucer. but both are red and both are on the table, if the default meaning of the phrase would be understood.
also, i like the idea of the composer, but the rephrasing only works on small phrases (that are easy), when actually bigger ones would be the real value here.
"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature."
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The ambiguity in the structure has to be resolved by knowing there is neither a "rich man fish" or a "man fish"; although there can be a "clown fish" or a "pilot fish".
It also incorrectly parses "When shall we three meet again?" Compare its diagram to "When shall we all meet again?" In the latter, "all" is described as an "appositional modifier" to "we", but in the former, it is a "number modifier" to "meet".
"[Imperative] [subject or object]" is interpreted as "[Noun] [noun]," which makes no sense.
also, i like the idea of the composer, but the rephrasing only works on small phrases (that are easy), when actually bigger ones would be the real value here.
WIP i guess?
"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature."