More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 140
"No matter vor that, I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just caught one."
Who acts: matter vor · What happens: fish, catch · To what, where: pocket, matter vor
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter vor), 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 | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 vor | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vor | compound |
| 4 | vor | vor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fishing | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fishing | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fishing | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fishing | aux |
| 10 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 vor | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fishing | obl | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 caught | advmod |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 caught | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | no matter vor | my pocket | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no matter vor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=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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