More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 23
Show him in," said the Mayor, and in he stepped.
Who acts: Mayor, Honour · What happens: show in, say, step · To what, where: 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 (Mayor, Honour), 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 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Show | iobj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Show | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mayor | det |
| 8 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stepped | cc |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 stepped | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in | infinitive | Honour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | step in a quote | past | Honour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP 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: «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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