The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 152

“What a pity that a handsome young man should throw away his life so carelessly!

Who acts: handsome young man · What happens: throw away · To what, where: pity

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome young man), 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	_	4 pity	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pity	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 throw	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 throw	aux
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pity	acl:relcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 carelessly	advmod
16	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away in a quote	should	a handsome young man	a pity				away, carelessly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination life=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 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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