More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 40

Anyhow, I am the man; what have you to say to me?"

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: man, me · 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 (I, you), 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	Anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	6 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Anyhow	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the man					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	you	the man	me				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to i=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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