The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 23

‘What is the use of my telling you things that would only make you sad too?’

Who acts: my, things · What happens: be, tell, make · To what, where: use, things, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my, things), 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	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 telling	nsubj
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 telling	iobj
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 telling	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 things	acl:relcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 make	xcomp
17	too	too	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the use			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	my	things	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic
3	make	would	things	you		sad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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