More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 62
Tom couldn't speak yet, but he thought; "Lord! for sure 't is a bogle!"
Who acts: Tom, Lord t · What happens: not speak, think, be · To what, where: bogle · 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 (Tom, Lord t), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bogle | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 t | compound |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sure | case |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Lord | nmod |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lord | punct |
| 17 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bogle | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bogle | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bogle | det |
| 20 | bogle | bogle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 bogle | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bogle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | could | Tom | yet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Tom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Lord t | a bogle | tree rules |
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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