The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 20
It was no use, after all he had done, getting drowned in the water.
Who acts: tree, cat · What happens: be, do, drown · To what, where: use, water
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, cat), 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 all | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 use | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drowned | punct |
| 12 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 drowned | aux:pass |
| 13 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 use | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drowned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | no use | after all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | cat | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drown | gerund · passive | no use not said here | the water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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