More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 3
"You would be finely put to shame if you had a goosegirl for your wife!" said she; "go and ask one of the great ladies you will see to-night at the King's ball, and do not flout poor Tattercoats."
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: put, shame, have, say, go, ask · To what, where: You, goosegirl, one, great ladies, ball, poor Tattercoats · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shame | mark |
| 8 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | advcl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shame | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 goosegirl | det |
| 13 | goosegirl | goosegirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goosegirl | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ask | cc |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 ask | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ladies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ladies | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ladies | amod |
| 30 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | aux |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 to | punct |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 ball | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 ball | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 41 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 flout | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 flout | cc |
| 44 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 46 flout | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 flout | advmod |
| 46 | flout | flout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 47 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Tattercoats | amod |
| 48 | Tattercoats | tattercoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 flout | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | would · passive | You | finely property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | shame in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | a goosegirl | for your wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goosegirl=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | one of the great ladies | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | future | you | the great ladies not said here | the King's ball | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||
| 8 | not flout in a quote | infinitive · do-support | poor Tattercoats | 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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