The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 60
But the third said contemptuously, ‘It is not worth the trouble!
Who acts: third · What happens: say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | contemptuously | contemptuously | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 worth | advmod |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trouble | det |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the third | contemptuously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | third | worth property | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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