Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 6

At last the armless one said, "What is the use of our quarrelling?

Who acts: last armless one · What happens: say, be · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last armless one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	armless	armless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 use	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 use	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 use	det
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 quarrelling	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 quarrelling	nmod:poss
15	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the last armless one						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the use				of our quarrelling	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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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