More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 34
"Whence come you and whither are you going?" said Tom, "this is no highway."
Who acts: you, Tom, this · What happens: come, go, say, be · To what, where: you, highway · 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, this), 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 6 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 going | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 13 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 highway | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 highway | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 highway | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 highway | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 highway | det |
| 19 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | you | whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this | no highway | 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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