More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 44

It must be Sally Bratton's child," he thought to himself; "she was always a flighty thing, and never looked after it.

Who acts: creature, lad, child · What happens: be, think, not look · To what, where: child, lad, flighty thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, lad, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 child	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 child	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 child	cop
4	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod:poss
5	Bratton	Bratton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sally	flat
6	's	's	PART	_	4 Sally	case
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 child	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 thing	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	flighty	flighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 looked	advmod
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	parataxis
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	creature	Sally's child				tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	lad		lad			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	child	a flighty thing			always property	tree rules
4	not look	past				after creature		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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