More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 44

"It's well come," quoth he, "for our porrage were but thin to-day.

Who acts: Bannock · What happens: come, quoth · To what, where: weaver

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quoth	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 quoth	punct
8	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 quoth	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 porrage	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 porrage	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 porrage	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 porrage	nmod:poss
14	porrage	porrage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 but	cop
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 porrage	conj
17	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 porrage	amod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thin	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	Bannock					for our porrage; well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	quoth	infinitive	Bannock not said here	weaver					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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