The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 20
‘Here we are, ready to work like slaves the whole day long, and no work can we get.
Who acts: we, work · What happens: be, work, get
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, work), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ready | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 work | mark |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 slaves | case |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 work | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 work | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | here | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | we not said here | day | like slaves; long property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | get | can | no work | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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