More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 25
"Hi, missis; what sort of a coat's that?" said he.
Who acts: missis · What happens: say, sort · To what, where: that · 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 (missis), 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 | _ | 4 missis | punct |
| 2 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 4 missis | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missis | punct |
| 4 | missis | missis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 sort | det |
| 7 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missis | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coat | det |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 that | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 coat | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sort | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | missis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sort in a quote | that | 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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