More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 97

"Grip it," quoth the wife, "and I'll have a bit too."

Who acts: you, wife · What happens: grip, quoth, have · To what, where: half, wife, bit

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, wife), 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 Grip	punct
2	Grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Grip	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Grip	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quoth	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Grip	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	too	too	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Grip	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Grip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grip in a quote	imperative	you not said here	half	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	quoth	infinitive	you not said here	the wife	tree rules
3	have in a quote	future	wife	a bit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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