More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 90
So they went on for a bit, and then, one day, Jan said to his wife, "Wife can you brew-y?"
Who acts: rats, Jan, Wife · What happens: go on, say, brew · To what, where: wife, y · 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 (rats, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bit | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 then | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 15 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 brew | punct |
| 22 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brew | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 brew | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 brew | nsubj |
| 25 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 y | punct |
| 27 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brew | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 brew | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 brew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | rats = rat | for a bit | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Jan | end's wife | then; day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | brew in a quote | can | Wife | y | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent y=Product |
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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