More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 6
"Tom, my lad," he said with a grin, "I'll tell 'ee summat, Tom.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: ee summat · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Tom | punct |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lad | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lad | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lad | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lad | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 grin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grin | det |
| 12 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 summat | punct |
| 19 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 summat | compound |
| 20 | summat | summat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tom | punct |
| 22 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | with a grin | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with grin=Manner | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Tom | ee summat | Tom obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent summat=Recipient |
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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