The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 3
We never get anything but hard dry crusts to eat—why, the dog under the table is better off than we are.
Who acts: We, dog · What happens: not get, eat, be · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dog), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 get | advmod |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 crusts | cc |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crusts | amod |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crusts | amod |
| 8 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anything | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 crusts | acl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 better | nsubj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dog | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 better | compound:prt |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 are | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 are | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | We | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the dog under the table | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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