Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 29

"I have nothing at all," said the young man, "but five shil-lings and a ring."

Who acts: young man · What happens: have, say · To what, where: nothing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 lings	cc
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 lings	nummod
17	shil	shil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lings	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 shil	punct
19	lings	ling	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 man	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ring	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ring	det
22	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the young man but five shil lings and a ring = man	nothing		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man but five shil lings and a ring						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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