The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 98
'Two pounds a year, and nothing to do but keep some rooms clean,' said the new-comer.
Who acts: Two pounds, rooms · What happens: do, keep, clean, say · To what, where: new comer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two pounds, rooms), 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 pounds | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pounds | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nothing | cc |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 pounds | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nothing | acl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rooms | det |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clean | nsubj |
| 15 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 keep | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pounds | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pounds | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 comer | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 comer | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 new | punct |
| 22 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | Two pounds a year not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Two pounds a year not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | clean | present | some rooms | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Two pounds a year | the new comer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comer=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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