More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 49
So after a bit the footman comes to her and said he: "I have been with my master for years and have saved up a good bit, and you have been three years here, and must have saved up as well.
Who acts: footman, you · What happens: come, say, be, save up · To what, where: coachman, good bit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (footman, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 comes | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 bit | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 footman | det |
| 6 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comes | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 comes | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 master | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 master | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 master | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 master | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 master | cop |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 master | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 master | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saved | cc |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 saved | aux |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 comes | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 saved | compound:prt |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bit | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bit | amod |
| 29 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saved | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 here | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 here | cc |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 here | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 here | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 here | cop |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 years | nummod |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 here | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 saved | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 saved | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 saved | cc |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 saved | aux |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 saved | aux |
| 42 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 saved | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 saved | compound:prt |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 42 saved | advmod |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 as | fixed |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the footman | coachman | after a bit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | footman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | footman | year | with my master | tree rules | |||
| 4 | save up in a quote | present · perfect | the footman not said here | a good bit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present · perfect | you | year | here property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | save up in a quote | must · perfect | the footman not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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