More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 6
"Take as much as thou canst carry," said the farmer.
Who acts: thou, farmer · What happens: take, carry, say · To what, where: much · 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 (thou, farmer), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farmer | det |
| 13 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | much | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | can | thou | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | 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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