The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45
“But half a woman is no use to me,” answered the man.
Who acts: woman, use · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: use, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 half | cc |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 woman | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 use | det |
| 8 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 use | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | half woman | no use | no use = use | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | no use | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=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 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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