More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 21

Please your Honour," says he, "here is a very queer fellow come to town.

Who acts: Honour, your · What happens: say, be, honour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Honour, your), 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	Please	please	INTJ	_	3 Honour	discourse
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Honour	nmod:poss
3	Honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Honour	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Honour	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 he	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fellow	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 queer	advmod
14	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 town	case
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	your Honour		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	Honour	to town; come property	tree rules
3	honour		your		nom honour «state 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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