The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 64
‘It’s of no use speaking about that,’ said the king; ‘you cannot help me, at any rate.’
Who acts: stable, use, you · What happens: be, speak, say, not help · To what, where: king, me, rate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable, use, 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 | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 use | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 use | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 speaking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rate | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 rate | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 rate | det |
| 25 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 help | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stable | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | no use not said here | about no use | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not help | can | you | me | any rate | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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