The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 74
‘What is the use,’ replied the other, ‘of being Prince of the Gnomes, and having a mother who is queen over all the four elements, if I cannot win the love of the Princess Argentine?
Who acts: use, mother, I · What happens: be, reply, have, not win, love · To what, where: use, other, mother, queen, four elements, love
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, mother, I), 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 | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Prince | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Prince | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 Prince | cop |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Gnomes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Gnomes | det |
| 18 | Gnomes | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Prince | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 having | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 having | cc |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mother | det |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | obj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 queen | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 queen | cop |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | conj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 elements | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 elements | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 elements | det |
| 30 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 elements | nummod |
| 31 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 queen | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 win | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 win | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 win | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 win | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 win | advmod |
| 37 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 having | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 love | det |
| 39 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 win | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Argentine | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Argentine | det |
| 42 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Argentine | compound |
| 43 | Argentine | Argentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 love | nmod |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the use | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the use | the other | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of Prince; of the Gnomes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | the use not said here | a mother and queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a mother and queen | queen | all four elements | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not win a condition, not said to happen | can | I | the love of the Princess Argentine | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | love | the Princess Argentine | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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