More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 90
"Shut the door," quoth the goodman, "and we'll try to get a grip of it."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: shut, quoth, try, get, grip · To what, where: door, goodman, grip
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, we), 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 Shut | punct |
| 2 | Shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shut | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Shut | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goodman | det |
| 9 | goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 try | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 try | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Shut | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 grip | det |
| 19 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grip | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | you not said here | the goodman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | future | we | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | a grip of grip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grip=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | grip in a quote | grip | nom grip «act transitive»: of=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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