More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 44
"All the better," said Jack, "I'll have time to make ready."
Who acts: better · What happens: say, have, make · 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 (better), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 better | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 better | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all better | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | all better = good | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | all better = good not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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