More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 103
O welcome, welcome," quoth the fox, and snapped it in two in the middle.
Who acts: you · What happens: quoth, snap · To what, where: fox
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 quoth | discourse |
| 2 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 7 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 welcome | punct |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 7 quoth | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snapped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 snapped | cc |
| 12 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 snapped | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 two | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 snapped | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snapped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap in a quote | past | fox | in the middle; in two | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in two=Topic |
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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