The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 89

'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you?' grumbled his father angrily; and he bade first one and then another of his sons to fetch him the tool, but they had no better success than their brother.

Who acts: Stupid fellow, Patto, fellows · What happens: be, grumble, bade, fetch, have · To what, where: use, father, one, tool, Patto, better success

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stupid fellow, Patto, fellows), 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	_	3 fellow	punct
2	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grumbled	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 use	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 use	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 use	det
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fellow	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 use	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
13	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grumbled	obj
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	13 grumbled	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grumbled	obl
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 one	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bade	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 another	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 another	advmod
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 sons	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sons	nmod:poss
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 another	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fetch	mark
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sons	acl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fetch	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tool	det
33	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fetch	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grumbled	conj
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 better	advmod
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 success	amod
40	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
41	than	than	ADP	_	43 brother	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 brother	nmod:poss
43	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Stupid fellow	the use		of you	tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past	Stupid fellow	Patto's father		angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	bade		Patto	one			tree rules
4	fetch	to-infinitive	Patto not said here	the tool	Patto		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary tool=Theme
5	have	past	fellows = fellow	better success		than fellows's brother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient

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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