More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 15

Marry, 't is true," said they, and the woodman asked what reward he'd take. "

Who acts: t, besides, woodman · What happens: marry, be, say, ask, take · To what, where: reward · 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 (t, besides, woodman), 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	Marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	csubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
4	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woodman	det
14	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	conj
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 reward	det
17	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	infinitive				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	t		true property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	besides = beside			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	the woodman	what reward		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent reward=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	would	woodman			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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