The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 178

‘Yours is a bad illness for a Snow-man!’ said the yard-dog.

Who acts: Yours, bad illness · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bad illness, yard dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yours, bad illness), 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 illness	punct
2	Yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 illness	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 illness	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 illness	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 illness	amod
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Snow	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illness	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 illness	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 illness	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
16	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 yard	punct
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Yours	a bad illness				for a Snow man	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a bad illness	the yard dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

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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