The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 69
“What is the good of working like this if I never am a penny the richer at the end?
Who acts: lost heart · What happens: be, work · To what, where: penny, end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lost heart), 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 good | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 good | obl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 working | mark |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 good | advcl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 working | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 penny | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 penny | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 am | advmod |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 penny | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 penny | det |
| 15 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 richer | det |
| 17 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 penny | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 richer | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | gerund | like this | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | lost heart = heart | a penny | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | lost heart = heart not said here | at the end | 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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