The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 32
‘Don’t waste another thought upon that little shepherdess, who is unworthy of your notice.
Who acts: you, little shepherdess, your · What happens: not waste, be, notice · To what, where: thought
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little shepherdess, your), 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 waste | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 waste | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 waste | advmod |
| 4 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 thought | det |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waste | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 shepherdess | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 shepherdess | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shepherdess | amod |
| 10 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waste | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unworthy | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 unworthy | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 unworthy | cop |
| 14 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shepherdess | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 notice | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 notice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unworthy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste | imperative · do-support | you not said here | another thought | upon that little shepherdess | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | that little shepherdess | of your notice; unworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notice | your | nom notice «communication 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 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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