More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 104
"No," said the wise woman, "thou 'rt a bigger fool than ever, my lad."
What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rt | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 woman | nmod |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 13 | rt | Rt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fool | det |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 fool | amod |
| 16 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 fool | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lad | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lad | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fool | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 lad | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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