More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 79
"Nothing _can_ be easier," said they: so I went on my way.
Who acts: Nothing, I., I · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, I., 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 | _ | 7 easier | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | aux |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easier | cop |
| 7 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | Nothing | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | I | my way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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