More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 105
"It'll certainly be soon dark," she said to herself, "and folk'll not see what I'm bringing home with me, and so I'll have all the night to myself to think what I'll do with it.
Who acts: gold, Mercy, folk, I · What happens: be, say, not see, bring, have, think · To what, where: Mercy, myself · 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 (gold, Mercy, folk, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dark | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 dark | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dark | cop |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dark | advmod |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dark | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dark | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 bringing | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bringing | nsubj |
| 23 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bringing | aux |
| 24 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 see | ccomp |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 bringing | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bringing | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 have | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 have | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | conj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 night | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 night | det |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 myself | case |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 have | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 think | mark |
| 40 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 have | advcl |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 do | obj |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 think | ccomp |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | gold | certainly, dark, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mercy | Mercy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | future | folk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · progressive | I | with me; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | future | I | myself | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | future | I | with gold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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