More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 69
"And now," he says, "I'm in a hurry to-night, but tell me quick, what'll I do for thee?
Who acts: Tom · What happens: say, be, tell, do · To what, where: hurry, Tom · 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), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 says | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurry | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hurry | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurry | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hurry | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hurry | det |
| 14 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurry | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tell | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 do | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Tom | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Tom | a hurry | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Tom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | Tom | for thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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