More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 50
Mrs. Gomme comes only second in rank among my creditors for thanks which I can scarcely pay without becoming bankrupt in gratitude.
Who acts: Mrs. Gomme, I · What happens: come, pay, become · To what, where: rank, thanks, bankrupt
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs. Gomme, 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gomme | compound |
| 2 | Gomme | Gomme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 second | advmod |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 comes | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rank | case |
| 7 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 creditors | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 creditors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | creditors | creditor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rank | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 thanks | case |
| 12 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creditors | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pay | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pay | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pay | aux |
| 16 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 17 pay | advmod |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thanks | acl:relcl |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 becoming | mark |
| 19 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pay | advcl |
| 20 | bankrupt | bankrupt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becoming | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 gratitude | case |
| 22 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bankrupt | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Mrs. Gomme | rank among my creditors for thanks | second property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rank=Location | |||
| 2 | pay | can | I | thanks | scarcely property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Asset | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | I not said here | bankrupt in gratitude | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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