More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 37

"Well," said the tinker, "I'm ready for a bout with any man, and I hear there is one Tom Hickathrift in the country of whom great things are told.

Who acts: tinker, one Tom Hickathrift · What happens: say, be, hear, tell · To what, where: country, great things · 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 (tinker, one Tom Hickathrift), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tinker	det
7	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ready	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ready	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ready	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	cop
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 bout	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bout	det
15	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ready	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ready	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hear	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
22	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	ccomp
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Hickathrift	nummod
26	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Hickathrift	compound
27	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 whom	case
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 country	nmod
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 things	amod
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 told	nsubj:pass
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 told	aux:pass
36	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 whom	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the tinker				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the tinker = tinker			for a bout; with any man; ready property	tree rules
3	hear in a quote	present	the tinker = tinker				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be in a quote	present	one Tom Hickathrift		the country; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · passive		great things			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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