The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 59

Then one of the dogs spoke and said, ‘Our task is done; you have no more need of us.

Who acts: dogs, you, Our · What happens: speak, say, do, have, task, need · To what, where: task, more need, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, you, Our), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 spoke	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoke	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
11	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 task	nmod:poss
12	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spoke	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 need	det
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 need	amod
20	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 need	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the dogs		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the dogs not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · passive		Our task	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	have	present	you	no more need of us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
5	task		Our		nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	need			us	nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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