The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 85
Neither my life nor yours would be worth anything if I went on such a fool’s errand.’
Who acts: life, I · What happens: be, go · To what, where: fool errand
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 (life, 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 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 8 worth | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 yours | cc |
| 5 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | conj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 worth | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 worth | cop |
| 8 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 worth | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 worth | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 errand | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 fool | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fool | det |
| 16 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 errand | compound |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 fool | case |
| 18 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worth | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | my life | neither, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | I | fool errand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |
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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