The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 33
‘Do you think I have nothing to do but to waste my time on such trifles?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, have, do, waste · To what, where: nothing, such trifles · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 waste | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 waste | mark |
| 12 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waste | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 trifles | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trifles | amod |
| 17 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waste | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | waste | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | on such trifles goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on trifle=Goal |
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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