English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 34
There is a stable seven miles long and seven miles broad, and it has not been cleaned for seven years, and you must clean it to-morrow, or I will have you for my supper.”
Who acts: stable, you, I · What happens: be, not clean, clean, have · To what, where: work, you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable, you, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stable | det |
| 4 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 miles | nummod |
| 6 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 long | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stable | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broad | cc |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 miles | nummod |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 broad | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stable | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cleaned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cleaned | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cleaned | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cleaned | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 18 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cleaned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clean | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clean | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 clean | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 clean | aux |
| 26 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cleaned | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 clean | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 morrow | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 to | punct |
| 30 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clean | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 have | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 clean | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 supper | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 supper | nmod:poss |
| 39 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a stable | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not clean | present · perfect · passive | work | year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | clean | must | you | work | to morrow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | future | I | you | for my supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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