The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 8
‘My faith,’ said he, ‘it is sheer folly to waste more time hunting for this bird.
Who acts: faith, direction, more time · What happens: say, be, waste, hunt · To what, where: sheer folly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faith, direction, more time), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faith | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 faith | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 folly | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 folly | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 folly | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 folly | cop |
| 12 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folly | amod |
| 13 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 waste | mark |
| 15 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 folly | acl |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waste | obj |
| 18 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 time | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 bird | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My faith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | direction | sheer folly | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | waste | to-infinitive | My faith not said here | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | more time not said here | for this bird | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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