More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 113
The only thing we can do is to roam the world over till we find the bag of groats."
Who acts: we, only thing · What happens: do, be, find · To what, where: only thing, bag
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, only thing), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roam | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roam | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 roam | mark |
| 9 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roam | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 roam | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roam | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bag | det |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 groats | case |
| 19 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bag | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 roam | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 roam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | we | the only thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the only thing | over, roam property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | we | the bag of groats | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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