The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 92
It would be stupid to throw away our lives like this.”
Who acts: horse · What happens: be, throw away · To what, where: lives
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 (horse), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stupid | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stupid | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stupid | cop |
| 4 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 throw | mark |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stupid | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 throw | advmod |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 throw | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 throw | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupid | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stupid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | horse | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw away | to-infinitive | horse not said here | our lives | like this; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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