More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 2
"I've been grinding and grinding these seven years," said Jack, "and not a holiday have I had.
Who acts: Jack, holiday · What happens: grind, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, holiday), 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 | _ | 5 grinding | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grinding | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grinding | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grinding | aux |
| 5 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grinding | cc |
| 7 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grinding | conj |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 years | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grinding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grinding | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grinding | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 holiday | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 holiday | det |
| 20 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Jack | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grind in a quote | gerund | Jack not said here | year | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | a holiday | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | Jack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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