More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 93
I should like to go to church, too," but the three ugly sisters said: "What would you do at the church, you nasty thing?
Who acts: I, three ugly sisters, you · What happens: like, go, say, do, thing · To what, where: church · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three ugly sisters, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 too | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sisters | nummod |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sisters | amod |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 church | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 church | det |
| 26 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thing | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 thing | nsubj |
| 29 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thing | amod |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | parataxis |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the three ugly sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | would | you | the church | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | thing | you | 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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