The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 81
Why were you such a fool as to let yourself be thrown in?
Who acts: you, yourself · What happens: be, let, throw · To what, where: fool, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, yourself), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 fool | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fool | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 fool | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fool | advcl |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thrown | aux:pass |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 let | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 thrown | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | you | such fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive · passive | yourself not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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