The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 33

‘Oh, my lord, we can find no work and have eaten nothing for two days!’ answered she.

Who acts: we · What happens: find, eat, answer · To what, where: work, nothing, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	9 find	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 find	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lord	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lord	nmod:poss
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 work	det
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eaten	cc
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 find	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 eaten	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 answered	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	find	can	we	no work			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
2	eat	present · perfect	we not said here	nothing		day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past			woman		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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