More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 10
I shall ne'er do my task:" on which the old woman proposed to do it for her.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: do, propose, task · To what, where: task, old woman
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 task | nmod:poss |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 woman | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | advcl |
| 14 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 woman | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proposed | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | I | my task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | propose in a quote | participle | the old woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | task | for ne'er | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | task | my | nom task «act 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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