More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 42
"Tibby," quoth he, "what's that?"
Who acts: Tibby · What happens: quoth, be · To what, where: weaver, that · 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 (Tibby), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Tibby | Tibby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 that | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 that | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 that | obj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 that | cop |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 quoth | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Tibby | weaver | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | 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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