The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 86

There is no use your talking about making snow-shoes out of this tree, when you have neither knife nor axe to cut it down with!”

Who acts: use, talking, you, your · What happens: be, make, have, cut down, talk · To what, where: snow shoes, tree, knife

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, talking, you, your), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 use	det
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 talking	nmod:poss
6	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 making	mark
8	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 talking	acl
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 have	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
20	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	21 knife	det
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 axe	cc
23	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knife	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cut	mark
25	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	25 cut	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	no use		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	your talking not said here	snow shoes	this tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product
3	have	present	you	neither knife nor axe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	cut down	to-infinitive	you not said here	knife		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	talk		your			nom talking «communication intransitive»: poss=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: «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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