Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 10
It has come to such a pass with us that there's not a crust of bread nor a farthing of money in the house.
Who acts: errand · What happens: come, not be · To what, where: pass, crust
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (errand), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pass | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 pass | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pass | det |
| 7 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 crust | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 's | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 's | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 crust | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 crust | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crust | det |
| 15 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crust | nmod |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 farthing | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 farthing | det |
| 20 | farthing | farthing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crust | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 farthing | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 money | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | errand | such pass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | a crust nor a farthing of money in the house | with us; of bread | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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