More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 32
"Here's muck," said the fool, much pleased, and he got in and rolled in it spluttering. "
Who acts: muck, foot · What happens: be, say, get in, roll, splutter · To what, where: fool · 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 (muck, foot), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | muck | muck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 muck | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 muck | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleased | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fool | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rolled | cc |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 got | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 spluttering | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spluttering | nsubj |
| 22 | spluttering | splutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 rolled | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | muck | the fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get in | past | muck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | roll | participle | muck not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | splutter | gerund | foot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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