More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 2
Take what you will," said the farmer, an honest charitable man.
What happens: take, say · To what, where: farmer · 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: 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 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farmer | det |
| 9 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 13 | charitable | charitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 farmer | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the farmer and a honest charitable man | 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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