Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 89
What, all that money wasted for nothing!
What happens: waste · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 money | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 money | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 wasted | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | participle | all money not said here | for nothing | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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