More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 95

"Now _that_," said she, stopping to look at it, "would be just the very thing for me if I had anything to put into it!

Who acts: woman, stopping · What happens: say, stop, look, be, have, put · To what, where: that, thing, anything, pot · 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 (woman, stopping), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 that	advmod
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 said	obl
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopping	punct
11	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 thing	csubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stopping	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 thing	cop
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 thing	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 thing	advmod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 put	mark
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 anything	acl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	woman	that			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stop	gerund					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive				at pot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	is a in a quote	would	stopping	the thing		for woman	tree rules
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	woman	anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
6	put in a quote	to-infinitive	woman not said here	anything not said here	pot		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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