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

"I'm come for the straw," said Tom.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: come, 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 (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	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 straw	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 straw	det
7	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	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	come in a quote	present	Tom					for the straw	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	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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