More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 59
"No," says he, "and I canna buy my pottle o' brains, for there's nothing I like best left!"
Who acts: I, nothing · What happens: say, buy, be, like, leave · To what, where: pig, pottle · Speech: someone speaks here
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, nothing), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 buy | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 buy | nsubj |
| 11 | canna | canna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | nsubj |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pottle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pottle | pottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | obj |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 brains | case |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 o | case |
| 17 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 buy | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 's | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 's | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 's | expl |
| 21 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 buy | parataxis |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 's | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 left | advmod |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 like | xcomp |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | pig | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | infinitive | I | my pottle | of brains | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pottle=Theme | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | like in a quote | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave not said to happen, in a quote | participle | I not said here | well property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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