More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 37
Hout," quoth she, "be no afeard; it's but a wee bannock.
Who acts: you, Bannock · What happens: hout, quoth, be · To what, where: wife, wee bannock
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, Bannock), 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 | Hout | hout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quoth | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quoth | punct |
| 4 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hout | conj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 quoth | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afeard | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 afeard | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 afeard | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 afeard | det |
| 10 | afeard | afeard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quoth | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bannock | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bannock | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bannock | cop |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 bannock | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bannock | det |
| 16 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bannock | amod |
| 17 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hout | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hout | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | quoth in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | you not said here | afeard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Bannock | a wee bannock | 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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