English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 15
“That I would, but I do not know how to get any,” answered Dick.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: not know, get, answer · 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), 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 | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 would | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 would | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 get | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | conj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 any | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 any | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | ccomp |
| 18 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | would · do-support | Dick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Dick | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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