The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 56

'What is the use of liking?' answered Jose.

What happens: be, like, answer · To what, where: use, Jose

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obl
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 liking	mark
7	liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 answered	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 liking	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 liking	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the use		tree rules
2	like	gerund			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	answer speech: assert	past		Jose	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jose=Eventuality

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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