More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 55
Yes, Sir, your bank has failed, your credit is lost and you're not worth a shilling in the world.
Who acts: bank, you, your · What happens: fail, lose, not be, credit · To what, where: credit
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 (bank, you, your), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 failed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sir | punct |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yes | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bank | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 failed | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 failed | aux |
| 8 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 failed | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 credit | nmod:poss |
| 11 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 failed | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worth | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 worth | nsubj |
| 16 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worth | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 worth | advmod |
| 18 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 failed | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shilling | det |
| 20 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worth | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shilling | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · perfect | your bank | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · passive | your credit | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | you | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | credit | your | nom credit «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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