The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 104

‘“What is the good of telling me that?” he asked, in a weepy voice; “you know I cannot even walk as far as that palm.”

Who acts: donkey, you · What happens: be, tell, ask, know, not walk · To what, where: that, donkey, weepy voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey, you), 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 good	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 good	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 good	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 asked	ccomp
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 good	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 telling	iobj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 telling	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 voice	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 voice	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
18	weepy	weepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 voice	amod
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	parataxis
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 walk	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 walk	advmod
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 walk	advmod
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	ccomp
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 walk	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 palm	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 palm	det
33	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 far	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					good property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund		that	donkey			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	donkey			a weepy voice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not walk in a quote	can	donkey				far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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