English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 22
One thing to do, and one thing not to do.
Who acts: one thing · What happens: do, not do
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thing | nummod |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thing | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thing | nummod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thing | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | one thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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