The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 212
“I’ve nothing more to give,” answered the girl.
Who acts: girl · What happens: have, give, answer · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | parataxis |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 more | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the girl = girl | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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