The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 72
But it is no use being in a hurry, or you will spoil everything.”
Who acts: hold, you · What happens: be, spoil · To what, where: hurry, everything
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hold, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurry | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurry | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurry | nsubj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hurry | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hurry | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hurry | det |
| 9 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoil | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoil | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 spoil | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoil | aux |
| 14 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hurry | parataxis |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 spoil | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoil | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hold | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spoil | future | you | everything | 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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