The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 53
‘I have nothing to say that you would care to hear,’ answered the jogi.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, say, care, hear, answer · To what, where: nothing, jogi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 care | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 care | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 care | aux |
| 10 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 care | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jogi | det |
| 17 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | care | would | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | the jogi | 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: «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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