More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 30
Sho, sho," she would say, "go away;" and so it tussled about.
Who acts: Sho, spindle · What happens: say, go away, tussle · 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 (Sho, spindle), 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 | Sho | Sho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 say | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 3 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 1 Sho | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sho | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tussled | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 tussled | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tussled | nsubj |
| 18 | tussled | tussle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 tussled | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | would | Sho | Sho vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tussle in a quote | past | spindle | about property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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