More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 49
"Hout," quoth Willie, "cast the clue at it."
Who acts: you · What happens: hout, quoth, cast · To what, where: Willie, clue
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), 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 | _ | 2 Hout | punct |
| 2 | Hout | hout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hout | conj |
| 6 | Willie | Willie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cast | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cast | punct |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hout | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clue | det |
| 11 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cast | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cast | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hout | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hout in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | you not said here | Willie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cast in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the clue | clue | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clue=Theme at it=Destination |
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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