More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 47
Ay," said the tinker, "hang him that would fight a man unarmed."
Who acts: tinker · What happens: say, hang, fight · To what, where: tinker, man · 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), 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 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tinker | det |
| 6 | tinker | tinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hang | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hang | punct |
| 9 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tinker | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hang | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hang | obj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fight | aux |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | obj |
| 16 | unarmed | unarmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fight | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | hang | infinitive | the tinker not said here | tinker | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient that=Result | ||||
| 3 | fight | would | the tinker | a man | unarmed property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
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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