Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 45

"What is the use of keeping that lazy steed?" said the miser to himself one morning. "

Who acts: use, miser · What happens: be, keep, say · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, miser), 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 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 keeping	mark
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 steed	amod
10	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 steed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 steed	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keeping	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miser	det
15	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 miser	nmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 morning	nummod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 miser	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the use	tree rules
2	keep in a quote	gerund	the use not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	the miser to miser		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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