Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 72
I've lost one of the shoes off my feet," said Trembling.
Who acts: I, Trembling · What happens: lose, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Trembling), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lost | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shoes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoes | det |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feet | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 feet | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | I | one of the shoes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Trembling | off my feet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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