The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 25

‘What is the use of our all crowding each other up in this poky little place?’ he said.

Who acts: our, Medio · What happens: be, crowd up, say · To what, where: use, each, poky little place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (our, Medio), 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	21 said	ccomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 crowding	mark
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crowding	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crowding	nsubj
9	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 crowding	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 crowding	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 place	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 place	nsubj
15	poky	poky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crowding	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the use		tree rules
2	crowd up	gerund	our	each	poky little place	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent each=Theme in place=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Medio			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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