The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 57
But what does it matter to you?” said the turtle, more suspicious than ever.
What happens: matter, say · To what, where: question, you, turtle · 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 matter | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | expl |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 turtle | det |
| 12 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suspicious | punct |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 suspicious | advmod |
| 15 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 suspicious | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | question | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the turtle | tree rules |
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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