The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 126

‘It is not worth sixpence, and it is no good to me!’

Who acts: ball · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: worth sixpence, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball), 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 sixpence	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sixpence	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sixpence	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sixpence	advmod
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sixpence	amod
6	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 good	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 good	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 good	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sixpence	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 good	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sixpence	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sixpence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	ball	worth sixpence					tree rules
2	is	present	ball		me			good 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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