English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 8

“I can do nothing,” he said; “as I don't know the right words to utter, and they are locked up in yon book.”

Who acts: shell · What happens: do, say, not know, utter, lock up · To what, where: nothing, right words, words, yon book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell), 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	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 know	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 words	amod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 utter	mark
21	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 words	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 locked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 locked	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 locked	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 locked	aux:pass
26	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 know	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 locked	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 book	case
29	yon	yon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 book	compound
30	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 locked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do in a quote	can	shell	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	shell			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	shell	the right words		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	utter speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	shell not said here	the right words not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	lock up in a quote	present · passive		words = word	yon book	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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