More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 8

Seven years have we been baking, and no one has come to take us out," the girl said, "No, I don't want to burn my fingers."

Who acts: Seven years, we, one, girl, I · What happens: have, be, come, take out, say, not want · To what, where: baking, us, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven years, we, one, girl), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 baking	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 baking	cop
6	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	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	3 have	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	xcomp
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	_	21 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 take	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
24	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	29 want	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 No	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 want	nsubj
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 want	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 want	advmod
29	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 burn	mark
31	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 want	xcomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fingers	nmod:poss
33	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burn	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	Seven years		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle	we	baking	tree rules
3	come	present · perfect	no one		tree rules
4	take out	to-infinitive	no one not said here	us	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the girl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not want	present · do-support	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my fingers	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent finger=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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