The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 105
“Crying never does any good.
Who acts: Crying · What happens: cry, not do · To what, where: good · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crying), 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 | _ | 2 Crying | punct |
| 2 | Crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 does | csubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 does | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | present | Crying | any good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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