More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 134

"If that be so," said Johnny Gloke, as he sprang, bold as a lion, from his hiding-place, "What do you say to Johnny Gloke with his old roosty sword?"

Who acts: that, Johnny, you · What happens: be, say, spring · To what, where: hiding place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, Johnny, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 so	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 so	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 so	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 said	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Johnny	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sprang	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 sprang	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sprang	nsubj
14	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bold	punct
16	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sprang	xcomp
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 lion	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bold	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 place	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	25 place	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 place	nmod:poss
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hiding	punct
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprang	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
28	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 say	obj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 place	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Johnny	case
33	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
34	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Johnny	flat
35	with	with	ADP	_	39 sword	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sword	nmod:poss
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sword	amod
38	roosty	roosty	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sword	compound
39	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	that			so property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	Johnny				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	spring	past	Johnny		Johnny's hiding place	bold property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	you	Johnny's hiding place		with Johnny's old roosty sword	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme johnny=Manner

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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