More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 67
"No, they could not make themselves understood," said the Seer, "but Jack could do the errand."
Who acts: man, Seer, Jack · What happens: not make, not understand, say, do · To what, where: man, errand · 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 (man, Seer, Jack), 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 | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Seer | det |
| 14 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Seer | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Seer | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 errand | det |
| 22 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | could | man | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not understand in a quote | participle | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Seer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | could | Jack | the errand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality |
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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