The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 105

Much good it was for me to talk to you about your nose!

Who acts: it, me · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, me), 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	Much	much	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 good	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 good	cop
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 talk	mark
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 good	csubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 talk	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					good property	tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive	me		you			about your nose	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent about nose=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 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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