English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 76
“I cannot get Nix Nought Nothing to speak to me for all that I can do.”
Who acts: lady · What happens: not get, speak, do · To what, where: Nothing, lady, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lady), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Nothing | nsubj |
| 7 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 Nothing | compound |
| 8 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 speak | mark |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Nothing | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 speak | obl |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 do | det:predet |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 do | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 speak | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | can | lady | Nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | lady not said here | Nothing not said here | lady | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | lady | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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: «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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