The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 73
‘What is the use of talking,’ he replied roughly, ‘when a good-for-nothing creature like that can hear all we say?’
Who acts: ox, good nothing creature, we · What happens: be, talk, reply, hear, say · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ox, good nothing creature, we), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 talking | mark |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 hear | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 creature | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creature | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 creature | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 creature | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 for | punct |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 creature | compound |
| 22 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hear | nsubj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 creature | nmod |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hear | aux |
| 26 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 say | advmod |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 say | nsubj |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hear | advcl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the use | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | ox not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | ox | roughly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | can | a good nothing creature like that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | we | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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