English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 6
But body o' me, I've forgot the herbs, and it's bitter you'll taste without herbs.
Who acts: I, me, it, you · What happens: have, forget, be, taste · To what, where: herbs
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, it, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgot | cc |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 me | nsubj |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 me | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 've | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 me | parataxis |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 herbs | det |
| 11 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forgot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bitter | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bitter | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bitter | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bitter | cop |
| 16 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forgot | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 taste | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 taste | aux |
| 19 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bitter | ccomp |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 herbs | case |
| 21 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taste | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | forget | past | me | the herbs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | it | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | taste | future | you | without herbs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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