The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 31
“Is there nothing you would like?” he said at last in despair.
Who acts: nothing, you, husband · What happens: be, like, say · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, you, husband), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | husband | last | in despair | 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: «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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