English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 23
“Very sorry, but there is nothing in the house but ham and eggs.”
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 sorry | advmod |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 is | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ham | cc |
| 13 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eggs | cc |
| 15 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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