More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 31
Sure, Sir, to put out the fire.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: put out · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 6 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | to-infinitive | Sir | the fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
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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