English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 51
Well, I will go back, and think nothing of the cuffing and scolding of the old cook, if I am to be Lord Mayor of London at last.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go back, think, be, scold · To what, where: nothing, Lord Mayor, last, old cook
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 (I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 think | cc |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 think | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cuffing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cuffing | det |
| 13 | cuffing | cuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scolding | cc |
| 15 | scolding | scolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cuffing | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cook | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cook | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cook | amod |
| 19 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scolding | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 am | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 am | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 am | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Mayor | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 Mayor | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Mayor | cop |
| 26 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mayor | compound |
| 27 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 London | case |
| 29 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mayor | nmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mayor | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | future | I | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | nothing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Lord Mayor | last | of London | tree rules | |||
| 4 | scold | the old cook | nom scolding «communication 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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