The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 58

‘I am of no use except to have boots thrown at my head.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, have, throw · To what, where: boots, head

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 use	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	except	except	ADP	_	9 have	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	csubj
10	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boots	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrown	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			of no use	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		boots			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
3	throw	participle		boots not said here	my head		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at head=Destination

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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