More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 42
"Sure, you do but jest," said Tom.
Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: do, jest, say · 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sure | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 jest | cc |
| 7 | jest | jest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jest speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | 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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