More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 29
"Is it so?" said Tom, "nay, then come and take it."
Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, say, come, take · To what, where: prating · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Is | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 14 come | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nay | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | prating | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | prating | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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