More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 29
"It's a queer kind of coat to look for, sure-_ly_," said he, "I never heard of a coat o' clay.
Who acts: head, kind · What happens: be, look, say, not hear · To what, where: queer kind · 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 (head, kind), 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 kind | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 coat | case |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kind | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ly | punct |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ly | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 ly | punct |
| 16 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 ly | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 heard | advmod |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 coat | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 coat | det |
| 29 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obl |
| 30 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 32 clay | case |
| 31 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 32 clay | punct |
| 32 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | head | a queer kind | of coat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | kind not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | head not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | kind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not hear in a quote | past | kind | of a coat; of clay | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of coat=Stimulus |
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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