The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 63
It was no use taking it home, he might as well eat it.
Who acts: nut, use, Peter · What happens: be, take, eat · To what, where: use, nut
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut, use, Peter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 use | acl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taking | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 taking | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 13 eat | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nut | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | no use not said here | nut | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | might | Peter | nut | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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