More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 17
_"Hout, childer, ye've heard it a hundred times afore.
Who acts: you, ye · What happens: hout, hear · To what, where: childer
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, ye), 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 Hout | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hout | punct |
| 3 | Hout | hout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 childer | punct |
| 5 | childer | childer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hout | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Hout | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | afore | afore | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hout in a quote | imperative | you not said here | childer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | ye | childer | time | afore property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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