More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 79
Lie there and shift for yourself, for no help thou shalt have from us;" and they left the eel to drown.
Who acts: you, thou, meat · What happens: lie, shift, have, leave, drown · To what, where: eel
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 (you, thou, meat), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shift | cc |
| 4 | shift | shift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 shift | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 help | det |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shift | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eel | det |
| 22 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drown | mark |
| 24 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 left | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shift | infinitive | you not said here | for yourself | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | thou | for no help; from us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | past | meat | the eel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drown in a quote | to-infinitive | meat not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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