The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 6
The farmer said, ‘What’s the use of making a fuss?
Who acts: farmer, use · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: use, fuss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, use), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 use | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 use | det |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 use | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fuss | det |
| 13 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the use | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the use not said here | a fuss | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=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 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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