The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 27
‘You are old, and have lost your strength; of what use are you?’
Who acts: You · What happens: be, lose, use · To what, where: strength, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lost | cc |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 old | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 strength | nmod:poss |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 use | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 use | nsubj |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | parataxis |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 you | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 use | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect | You not said here | your strength | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | use | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | 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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