More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 24

Then the hangman said, "Now, lass, say thy prayers for thou must die."

Who acts: hangman, lass, thou, thy · What happens: say, die, pray · To what, where: prayers · 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 (hangman, lass, thou, thy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hangman	det
3	hangman	hangman	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	_	11 say	punct
7	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 say	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lass	punct
9	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lass	punct
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 prayers	nmod:poss
13	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	obj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 die	mark
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 die	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the hangman		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	lass	thy prayers	now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	die in a quote	must	thou			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	pray in a quote		thy			nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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