English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 84
“I want you to dress every dish without a mite o' salt.”
Who acts: maid, you · What happens: want, dress · To what, where: you, dish
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, you), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dress | mark |
| 6 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dress | obj |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 salt | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 salt | det |
| 11 | mite | mite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 o | compound |
| 12 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 salt | compound |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 o | punct |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dress | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | maid | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | every dish | without a o salt | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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