Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 29
"I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move."
Who acts: door · What happens: say, fix, have, move · To what, where: beam, jambs, power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 can | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 fixed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beam | det |
| 14 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fixed | aux:pass |
| 16 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 jambs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jambs | det |
| 19 | jambs | jamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fixed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fixed | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 power | det |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 move | mark |
| 26 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 power | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fix in a quote | present · passive | the beam | the jambs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the door = door | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 4 | move in a quote | to-infinitive | the door = door not said here | no power not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: «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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