More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 27
"You shall give me better words for it first," said Tom.
Who acts: You, Tom · What happens: give, say · To what, where: better words, Tom · 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 (You, Tom), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 give | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | shall | You | better words | Tom | for sirrah; first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme for it=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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