More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 17

My word! but it did, sure as death!

Who acts: hair, My · What happens: do, word

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 word	nmod:poss
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 word	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 did	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 word	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 word	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sure	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	hair						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	word		My						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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