More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 9
Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy.
Who acts: you, come, I · What happens: say, rob, borrow, not have, let in, be · To what, where: we, spoon, Good Fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, come, I), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 robbed | aux:pass |
| 4 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 borrow | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 borrow | mark |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 come | det |
| 8 | come | come | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrow | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 borrow | mark |
| 10 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spoon | det |
| 12 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrow | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 have | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 borrow | conj |
| 19 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Fortune | amod |
| 20 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Blessing | cc |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Blessing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 God | case |
| 24 | Blessing | Blessing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fortune | conj |
| 25 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 Let | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 busy | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 busy | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 busy | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 busy | cop |
| 31 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Let | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rob | present · passive | we | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | borrow a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | any come | a spoon | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not have | future | I | Good Fortune or God's Blessing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let in | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | I | busy property | tree rules |
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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