More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 66

"H'm," says he, pulling his beard; "as for that"--and he thought a bit--"ay so," he went on at last, "Yallery Brown thou mayst call me, Yallery Brown; 't is my nature seest thou, and as for a name 't will do as any other.

Who acts: Tom, thou, t · What happens: say, pull, think, go on, call, be · To what, where: beard, bit, last, Yallery, nature, thou · 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, thou, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 'm	punct
2	H	h	INTJ	_	3 'm	discourse
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 'm	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulling	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulling	punct
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 says	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beard	nmod:poss
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulling	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 that	case
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 says	ccomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bit	det
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 ay	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 ay	punct
26	ay	ay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bit	appos
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 ay	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 went	compound:prt
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 went	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 call	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Yallery	punct
37	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 call	obl
38	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Yallery	flat
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 call	nsubj
40	mayst	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	41 call	aux
41	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 went	advcl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 call	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Brown	punct
44	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Brown	compound
45	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 call	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 seest	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 nature	punct
48	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 nature	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 nature	cop
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 nature	nmod:poss
51	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 seest	obl
52	seest	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
53	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	52 seest	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 do	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 do	cc
56	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	59 name	case
57	for	for	ADP	_	56 as	fixed
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 name	det
59	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 do	obl
60	'	'	PUNCT	_	59 name	punct
61	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 do	nsubj
62	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 do	aux
63	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 seest	conj
64	as	as	ADP	_	65 any	case
65	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	63 do	obl
66	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 any	fixed
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pull	gerund	Tom	Tom's beard			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Tom	a bit			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bit=Theme
4	go on	past	Tom		last		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	call in a quote	may	thou	Yallery		Yallery Brown obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	present	t	my nature			tree rules
7	see in a quote	present		thou			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
8	do in a quote	future	t			as a name; as any	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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