More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 80
We have been baking seven years, and no one has come to take us out."
Who acts: We, one · What happens: bake, come, take out · To what, where: us
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 (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 baking | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 baking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 baking | aux |
| 4 | baking | bake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 baking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 baking | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | advcl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 take | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 baking | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 baking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | present · perfect · progressive | We | year | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take out | to-infinitive | no one not said here | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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