The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 65
‘I’ve not finished rubbing myself yet,’ said the peasant.
Who acts: I · What happens: not finish, rub, say · To what, where: myself, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 finished | advmod |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 rubbing | obj |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 rubbing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | present · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rub | gerund | I not said here | myself | yet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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