English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 39

When poor Dick heard this, he said: “I have nothing but a cat which I bought for a penny some time since of a little girl.”

Who acts: poor Dick, Dick · What happens: hear, say, have, buy · To what, where: this, nothing · 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 (poor Dick, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dick	amod
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 have	obj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cat	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bought	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bought	nsubj
19	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 penny	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 penny	det
22	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bought	obl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bought	obl:unmarked
25	since	since	ADP	_	29 girl	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 girl	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 girl	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 girl	amod
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bought	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	poor Dick	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Dick				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	Dick	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	buy in a quote	past			since a little girl; time	for a penny	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for penny=Beneficiary

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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