More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 102
"Mercy me!" she cried, and jumped back to the other side of the road; "_if it is fit brim full o' gold_ PIECES!!"
Who acts: Mercy, road · What happens: cry, jump back, be · To what, where: PIECES, fit brim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mercy, road), 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 Mercy | punct |
| 2 | Mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Mercy | appos |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mercy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mercy | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumped | cc |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 _ | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 _ | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 brim | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brim | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 brim | cop |
| 25 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 brim | amod |
| 26 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 o | amod |
| 28 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brim | conj |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 gold | punct |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 o | conj |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 PIECES | punct |
| 32 | PIECES | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obl |
| 33 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 32 PIECES | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 PIECES | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Mercy | PIECES | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jump back | past | Mercy not said here | to the other side of the road result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | road | fit brim and full o and gold | 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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