The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 105
“You are a nice man to go wasting your time and your money drinking in that tavern, and leaving us to starve!
Who acts: You, money · What happens: be, go, waste, drink, leave, starve · To what, where: nice man, tavern, us
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, money), 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | acl |
| 9 | wasting | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 time | nmod:poss |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wasting | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 money | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 money | nmod:poss |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | conj |
| 15 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 money | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tavern | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tavern | det |
| 18 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drinking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaving | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaving | cc |
| 21 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wasting | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leaving | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 starve | mark |
| 24 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 leaving | advcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a nice man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | waste in a quote | gerund | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | gerund | your money not said here | that tavern | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | gerund | us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 6 | starve in a quote | to-infinitive | 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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