English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 25
“I can do better than that.--Come, my table, be covered!”
Who acts: Ham · What happens: do, come, cover · To what, where: table
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 (Ham), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 table | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 table | nmod:poss |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 covered | aux:pass |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 do | advcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | Ham for me and eggs = ham | my table | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Ham for me and eggs = ham not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover in a quote | infinitive · passive | Ham for me and eggs = ham not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» |
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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