More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 68

O Janet," quoth he, "there's a wee bannock; I'll have the half of it."

Who acts: you, wee bannock, I · What happens: quoth, be, have · To what, where: Janet, half · 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 (you, wee bannock, I), 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	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	2 Janet	case
2	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 quoth	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Janet	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	_	10 's	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 's	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 's	expl
10	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quoth	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bannock	det
12	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bannock	amod
13	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 's	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 quoth	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 half	det
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 half	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quoth	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quoth in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Janet		of Janet	tree rules
2	be	present	a wee bannock		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	future	I	the half of Bannock			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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