The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 99
'Why do you give yourself so much trouble for nought, when you might know what you want to know for the asking?
Who acts: you · What happens: give, know, want, ask · To what, where: much trouble, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 give | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 nought | case |
| 11 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 trouble | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 know | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 want | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 asking | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 asking | det |
| 24 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 know | advcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · do-support | you | much trouble | yourself | for nought | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient trouble=Theme for nought=Asset | ||
| 2 | know | might | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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