More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 15
"Ay, so thou art," nodded she, and threw away a bad potato. "
What happens: nod, throw away · To what, where: woman, bad potato
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 | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 6 art | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 art | advmod |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nodded | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 9 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nodded | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nodded | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 threw | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 potato | det |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 potato | amod |
| 17 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 nodded | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | throw away | past | a bad potato | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Theme |
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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