The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 40

‘What would be the use of that?’ said the others who were in the kitchen; ‘you saw what happened last time.’

Who acts: others, you · What happens: be, say, see, happen · To what, where: use, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (others, 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 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 use	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kitchen	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 kitchen	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kitchen	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happened	nsubj
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	ccomp
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 happened	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would		the use			of that	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the others		the kitchen			tree rules
4	see	past	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	happen	past				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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