English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 33
“Father, I have a table which does all my bidding.”
Who acts: Jack, table, my · What happens: have, do, bid · To what, where: table, bidding
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 (Jack, table, my), 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 | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 have | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 table | acl:relcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bidding | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 does | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Jack | a table | Father vocative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | a table | my bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bid in a quote | my | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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