More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 50
"You're no good to me, then, and had best be off home."
Who acts: You · What happens: not be, have, be · To what, where: Jack
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 had | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 home | amod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 home | cop |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | You | Jack | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | You not said here | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | off best home | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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