The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 89
It is no use your talking; nothing will make me change my mind.”
Who acts: morsel, nothing, me, your, my · What happens: be, make, change, talk, mind · To what, where: use, me, mind
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 (morsel, nothing, me, your), 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 use | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 talking | nmod:poss |
| 6 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | morsel | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | future | nothing | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | infinitive | me not said here | my mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | talk | your | nom talking «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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