The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 47
“After all, I don’t know what is the use of your going, my boy!
Who acts: thaw, your · What happens: not know, be, go · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thaw, your), 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 | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 know | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 use | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 use | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 use | det |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 use | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boy | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 boy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 use | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | thaw | after all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the use and my boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | your | the use and my boy not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location use=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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