The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 79
He could not have cut down the tree, for he has neither axe nor knife.
Who acts: fox · What happens: not cut down, have · To what, where: tree, axe
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cut | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cut | aux |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | conj |
| 13 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 axe | det |
| 14 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 knife | cc |
| 16 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 axe | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut down | could · perfect | fox | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | ||||
| 2 | have | present | fox | neither axe nor knife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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