The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 10

At last he said to her, ‘It is no use waiting on here--I can find nothing; so I shall go down to Mascalucia, and perhaps there I shall be more lucky.’

Who acts: Sicilianische, last, use, I · What happens: say, be, wait, find, go down · To what, where: wife, last, use, nothing, Mascalucia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sicilianische, last, use, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 use	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 use	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 use	det
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 use	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 here	case
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 waiting	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waiting	advcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 find	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Mascalucia	case
28	Mascalucia	Mascalucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lucky	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lucky	cc
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 there	advmod
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 lucky	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 lucky	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 lucky	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 lucky	cop
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 lucky	amod
37	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 lucky	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 lucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sicilianische		wife	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	is a	present	last	no use				tree rules
3	wait	gerund	no use not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on here=Location
4	find	can	I	nothing				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	go down	shall	I		Mascalucia		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is	shall	I			there	lucky property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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