The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 79

‘It is no use,’ exclaimed Thuggai, at last.

Who acts: more, use · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: use, Thuggai

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, use), 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	_	5 use	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 exclaimed	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	more	no use					tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	no use	Thuggai					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thuggai=Topic

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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