More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 62
"I have just a ceiling to finish in an upper lobby," said Gobborn, "and then it wants nothing."
Who acts: Gobborn, ceiling · What happens: have, finish, say, want · To what, where: ceiling, upper lobby, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn, ceiling), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 ceiling | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ceiling | det |
| 6 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 finish | mark |
| 8 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ceiling | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lobby | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lobby | det |
| 11 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lobby | amod |
| 12 | lobby | lobby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finish | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wants | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 wants | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wants | nsubj |
| 22 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 wants | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 wants | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Gobborn | a ceiling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceiling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | to-infinitive | Gobborn not said here | a ceiling not said here | a upper lobby | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gobborn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | ceiling | nothing | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
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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