More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 46
What'll I do? what'll I do to get that pottle o' brains, now I'm alone in the world?"
Who acts: I · What happens: do, get, be · To what, where: brains, world
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 pottle | det |
| 13 | pottle | pottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brains | nmod:poss |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 ' | case |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 pottle | case |
| 16 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 alone | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 alone | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 alone | nsubj |
| 20 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 alone | cop |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 alone | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | that pottle's brains | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | the world | now | alone property | tree rules |
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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