The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 58

‘We have no cow,’ Matte answered; ‘but we have good smoked herring, and can cook them in a couple of hours.’

Who acts: We, Matte · What happens: have, answer, smoke, cook · To what, where: cow, good smoked herring, Matte

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Matte), 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 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 herring	amod
16	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 herring	amod
17	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cook	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cook	cc
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cook	aux
21	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cook	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 couple	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 couple	det
25	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cook	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 hours	case
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 couple	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	no cow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	Matte			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	we	good smoked herring		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herring=Patient
4	smoke	participle				vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cook	can	we not said here	Matte	in a couple of hours	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in couple=Instrument

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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