The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 117
But it is no use staying here, for I shall only be put to death.'
Who acts: hall, use · What happens: be, stay, put · To what, where: use, I
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hall, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 use | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 use | acl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 staying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | aux:pass |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 staying | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hall | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | no use not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | shall · passive | I | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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