The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 138
‘Well, it’s of no use to be angry about it,’ said the Princess, ‘for I can’t get it off.
Who acts: ring, Princess, I · What happens: be, say, not get off · To what, where: ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, Princess, I), 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 | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 use | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 use | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 use | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 use | det |
| 8 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 angry | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 angry | cop |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 use | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 angry | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 get | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ring | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ring not said here | about ring; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not get off | can | I | ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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