More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 70
One day, Jan said to his wife, "Wife can you milk-y?"
Who acts: Jan, wife · What happens: say, y · To what, where: wife · 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 (Jan, wife), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wife | punct |
| 11 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 y | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 y | nsubj |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 y | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 milk | punct |
| 16 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wife | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wife | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Jan | farmer's wife | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | y in a quote | can | farmer's wife = wife | tree rules |
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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