More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 52
Finally, I have had Mr. Batten with me once again--what should I or other English children do without him?
Who acts: I · What happens: have, do · To what, where: Batten
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 (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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Batten | obl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 again | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 children | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 I | conj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | Batten Mr. | again | finally property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent batten=Patient | ||
| 2 | do | should | I | without Mr. | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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