More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 114
Then Jan took the house-door off its hinges, "That's all we shall have to lie on," he said.
Who acts: Jan, That, Groat · What happens: take, be, lie on, say · To what, where: house door, hinges · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jan, That, Groat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 hinges | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hinges | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 13 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 have | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 have | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lie | mark |
| 20 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 lie | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jan | the house door | thing's hinges | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent door=Theme off hinge=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall · present | That | all, have property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie on in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Groat | 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: «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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