The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 3
Why do you persist in this folly?
Who acts: you · What happens: persist · To what, where: folly
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 persist | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 persist | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 persist | nsubj |
| 4 | persist | persist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 folly | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 folly | det |
| 7 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persist | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 persist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persist | present · do-support | you | this folly | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in folly=Location |
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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