The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 55

“What is the use of that?” grumbled Koane; “why, there is not enough to drown a fly.

Who acts: use · What happens: be, grumble, not be, drown · To what, where: use, Koane, fly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	5 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grumbled	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 use	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grumbled	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 enough	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 enough	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 is	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 enough	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grumbled	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 drown	mark
21	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enough	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fly	det
23	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drown	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the use	of that	tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	past	the use	Koane		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koane=Topic
3	not is in a quote	present	the use not said here		enough property	tree rules
4	drown in a quote	to-infinitive	the use not said here	a fly		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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 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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