The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 70
There is nothing for it but that we go and pay him a visit in person.
Who acts: nothing, we · What happens: be, go, pay · To what, where: Wali
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pay | cc |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 visit | det |
| 14 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 person | case |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | present | we not said here | Wali | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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