The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 9

Look at your brother, what pains he takes; but all the money I’ve spent on your education is thrown away.”

Who acts: you, brother, father, I, your · What happens: look, pain, take, have, spend, throw away · To what, where: money, education

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brother, father, I), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 brother	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pains	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pains	nsubj
7	pains	pain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	acl:relcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 takes	nsubj
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pains	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thrown	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thrown	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 money	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 money	det
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thrown	nsubj:pass
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ’ve	nsubj
16	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 money	acl:relcl
17	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 money	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 education	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 education	nmod:poss
20	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spent	obl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thrown	aux:pass
22	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Look	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 thrown	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at your brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at brother=Theme
2	pain	present	your brother			tree rules
3	take	present	father			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I	all money not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
5	spend	participle		all money not said here	on your education goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on education=Goal
6	throw away	present · passive		all money	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	educate		your			nom education «act transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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