More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 11
So the lad said, "It's no use of thee, thou pair of legs, standing alone at the window, as thou hast no eye to see with, so go join thy brother;" and he cast the lower part of the giant after the top part.
Who acts: lad, cry, thou · What happens: say, be, pair, stand, have, see · To what, where: use, window, eye, brother, lower part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, cry, thou), 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 | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 use | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 use | det |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 use | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pair | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 pair | nsubj |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 use | conj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 standing | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hast | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 hast | mark |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 hast | nsubj |
| 27 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 standing | parataxis |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 eye | det |
| 29 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hast | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hast | advcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 see | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 join | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 go | advmod |
| 35 | go | go | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 join | advcl |
| 36 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | conj |
| 37 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 join | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 cast | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 cast | nsubj |
| 43 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 part | det |
| 45 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 part | amod |
| 46 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cast | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 giant | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 giant | det |
| 49 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 part | nmod |
| 50 | after | after | ADP | _ | 53 part | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 part | det |
| 52 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 part | amod |
| 53 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cast | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cry | no use and pair | of thee | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pair in a quote | thou | of legs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | gerund | cry not said here | the window | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | thou | no eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | join in a quote | present | cry not said here | thy brother | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 8 | cast | past | lad | the lower part of the giant | after the top part | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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