The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 39
‘Oh, what’s the use of telling you?’ said the brothers.
What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: use, you, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 use | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 use | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 use | det |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 telling | mark |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 telling | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the use | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the brothers | 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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