The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 49
‘What good would it do to tell you, you little fool?
Who acts: matter, you · What happens: do, tell, fool · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 What | amod |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fool | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fool | nsubj |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fool | amod |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | vocative |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | matter not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fool | 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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