The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 37

‘You useless ne’er-do-weel!’ exclaimed his mother in a great passion.

Who acts: You, useless ne’er do weel · What happens: weel, exclaim · To what, where: mother, great passion

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, useless ne’er do weel), 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	_	8 weel	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 weel	nsubj
3	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weel	amod
4	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weel	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ne’er	punct
6	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weel	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 weel	punct
8	weel	weel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 weel	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 weel	punct
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 passion	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 passion	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 passion	amod
17	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weel		You						tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	useless ne’er do weel	weel's mother		a great passion			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=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 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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