The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 47
“What is the use of all this wealth that I have constantly before my eyes,” thought he, “if none of it is mine?
Who acts: I, use · What happens: be, have, think · To what, where: use, that, mine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, use), 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 | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wealth | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 wealth | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wealth | det |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 have | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | parataxis |
| 13 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 12 have | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mine | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mine | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 mine | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 mine | mark |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 28 mine | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 none | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mine | cop |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the use | of all wealth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | I | that | before my eyes | constantly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | use | mine | 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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