More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 87

"Hang him," says I.

What happens: hang, say · To what, where: maker, I. · 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: 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 Hang	punct
2	Hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Hang	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hang	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I.	I.	X	Foreign=Yes	6 says	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang in a quote	infinitive		maker					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present		I.					tree rules

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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