More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 54
"Oh!" said he; "what do they call ye?"
Who acts: boy, hair · What happens: say, call · To what, where: ye · 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 (boy, hair), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 call | obj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · do-support | hair | ye | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme ye=Result |
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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