The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 17

Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much that all their trouble would be well repaid by a single smile from you?”

Who acts: you, single smile, your, princes · What happens: waste, love, repay, pity, trouble · To what, where: pity, you, trouble

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, single smile, your, princes), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 waste	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waste	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 waste	nsubj
4	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pity	nmod:poss
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waste	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 princes	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 princes	det
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waste	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 love	nsubj
12	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waste	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 love	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	12 love	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 repaid	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 trouble	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 trouble	nmod:poss
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repaid	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 repaid	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 repaid	aux:pass
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 repaid	advmod
23	repaid	repay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 love	advcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 smile	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 smile	det
26	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smile	amod
27	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repaid	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 smile	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 waste	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 waste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	waste	present · do-support	you	your pity	on this princes goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pity=Asset on prince=Goal
2	love	present		you		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	repay	would · passive	a single smile from you	princes's trouble	well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
4	pity		your			nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	trouble		princes = prince			nom trouble «cognition 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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