More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 62
Quoth he: "I like a glass of good ale and a well-toasted bannock.
Who acts: Quoth · What happens: like, toast · To what, where: glass
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 (Quoth), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 like | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Quoth | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ale | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ale | amod |
| 11 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glass | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bannock | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bannock | det |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 toasted | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | toasted | toast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bannock | amod |
| 17 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ale | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | present | Quoth | a glass of good ale and a toasted bannock | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | toast in a quote | participle | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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