The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 110
‘There’s no use,’ says he, ‘going on this way.
What happens: say, go · To what, where: king, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | this way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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