More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 52
"You stupid," said his witty wife, "if you had told a tale you would have shortened the road!
Who acts: witty wife · What happens: say, tell, shorten · To what, where: you, tale · 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 (witty wife), 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 | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stupid | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wife | amod |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 shortened | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shortened | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tale | det |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 shortened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 shortened | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 shortened | aux |
| 21 | shortened | shorten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shortened | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Jack's witty wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | you | a tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tale=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shorten in a quote | would · perfect · passive | you | tree rules |
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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