The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 35
‘We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off, and at a loss to know what to do next.’
Who acts: We · What happens: have, be, know, do · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mannikin | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Mannikin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mannikin | amod |
| 9 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 money | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 off | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 off | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 off | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 off | cop |
| 14 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 16 off | advmod |
| 15 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 off | advmod |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 have | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loss | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 loss | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 loss | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 loss | det |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 loss | acl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 do | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 know | ccomp |
| 27 | next | next | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | we | altogether, badly, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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