More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 39
His father was well pleased, and said to Jack, "That was a witty woman; she would make you a good wife.
Who acts: father, That, girl · What happens: be, say, make · To what, where: Jack, witty woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, That, girl), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Jack | case |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 13 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 woman | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 woman | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Jack | appos |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wife | amod |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | father's father | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father's father not said here | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jack=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | That | a witty woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | would | girl | Jack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
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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