More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 88
"No, don't hang him," says he; "for he killed a hare yesterday.
Who acts: maker · What happens: not hang, say, kill · To what, where: maker, hare · 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 (maker), 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 | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 hang | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 hang | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hang | advmod |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hang | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hang in a quote | infinitive · do-support | maker | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | maker | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past | maker | a hare | yesterday | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
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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