More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 105
"So they all say," sighed the fool; "but where can I get the right sort of coat o' clay, then, missis?"
Who acts: fools · What happens: say, sigh, get, sort · To what, where: fool, right sort, coat · 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: who acts (fools), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fool | det |
| 10 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sighed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 get | advmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sort | det |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sort | amod |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 coat | case |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sort | nmod |
| 23 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 25 clay | case |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 clay | punct |
| 25 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sort | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 missis | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 missis | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 missis | punct |
| 29 | missis | missis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | parataxis |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | fools = fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sigh | past | the fool | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | can | fools = fool | the right sort of coat of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | coat | nom sort «cognition 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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