English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 46
Nay, we are scarce enough to fill one of his hollow teeth!”
Who acts: we · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 scarce | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 scarce | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scarce | cop |
| 5 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 scarce | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fill | mark |
| 8 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scarce | advcl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fill | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 teeth | amod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 scarce | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 scarce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | enough, scarce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | we not said here | one of prince's hollow teeth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=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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