The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 76

'What use is this old thing to me?' he said to himself. '

Who acts: wanderer · What happens: be, say · To what, where: old thing, me, wanderer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wanderer), 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	_	7 thing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thing	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this old thing	me				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	wanderer		wanderer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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