More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 66
"No, no," said the king, "cannot one of the men do the errand?"
Who acts: king, one · What happens: say, do · To what, where: errand · 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 (king, one), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 do | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 errand | det |
| 20 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | one of the men | the errand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality |
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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