English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 21
“No, indeed, sir,” said Dick to him, “that is not the case, for I would work with all my heart, but I do not know anybody, and I believe I am very sick for the want of food.”
Who acts: Dick, that · What happens: say, not be, work, not know, believe, be · To what, where: Fitzwarren, case, anybody, food · 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, that), 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 | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 sir | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 case | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 case | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 case | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 case | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 case | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 case | det |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 work | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 work | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 work | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 work | aux |
| 24 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 heart | det:predet |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 know | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 know | advmod |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 work | conj |
| 35 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 know | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 believe | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 believe | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 believe | nsubj |
| 39 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 sick | nsubj |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 sick | cop |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 sick | advmod |
| 43 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 believe | ccomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 want | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 want | det |
| 46 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sick | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 food | case |
| 48 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 want | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 sick | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dick | Fitzwarren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work in a quote | would | Dick | with my heart | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heart=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Dick | anybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | present | Dick | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Dick | for the want of food; sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | want in a quote | food | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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