English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 10
In this distress he asked charity of several people, and one of them said crossly: “Go to work, for an idle rogue.”
Who acts: Dick, one · What happens: ask, say, go · To what, where: charity, distress, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 distress | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 distress | det |
| 3 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 charity | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 19 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rogue | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 rogue | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rogue | det |
| 25 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rogue | amod |
| 26 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dick | charity of several people | this distress | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent charity=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of people | crossly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | work | for a idle rogue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location |
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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