Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 6
"My lord," said the servant, "we have only one loaf and a little wine."
Who acts: lord, we · What happens: say, have · To what, where: servant, one loaf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, we), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 loaf | nummod |
| 15 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wine | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wine | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wine | amod |
| 19 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loaf | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord | the servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | one loaf and a little wine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=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: «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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