Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 98
"Oh! we have her for nothing but to put out the ashes," said the sisters.
Who acts: we, sisters · What happens: have, put out, say · To what, where: woman, ashes · 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 (we, sisters), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ashes | det |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sisters | det |
| 19 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | we | woman | for nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | put out in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the ashes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ash=Goal | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the sisters | 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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