More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 12
Why didn't the good people of the town have cats?
Who acts: good people · What happens: not have · To what, where: cats
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 (good people), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 have | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past · do-support | the good people of the town | cats | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
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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