More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 98
Oh, ho," said I, "here's a bee's nest," when out sprang a covey of partridges.
Who acts: ho, I · What happens: say, be, spring out · To what, where: covey · 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 (ho, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 ho | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 I | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bee | det |
| 13 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 bee | case |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprang | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprang | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 sprang | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sprang | compound:prt |
| 20 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 covey | det |
| 22 | covey | covey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprang | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 partridges | case |
| 24 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covey | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ho | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spring out in a quote | gerund | ho not said here | a covey of partridges | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location covey=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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