More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 33
Hi, yi!" said he--for he had his mouth full--"I've got a coat o' clay now to be sure.
Who acts: yi, I · What happens: say, have, get, be · To what, where: mouth, 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 (yi, I), 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 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yi | punct |
| 3 | yi | yi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 yi | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yi | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 had | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | xcomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 had | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 coat | det |
| 21 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 22 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 clay | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 clay | punct |
| 24 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 sure | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sure | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sure | cop |
| 28 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 got | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | yi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | yi | yi's mouth | full property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | I | a coat | of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | now | sure property | tree rules |
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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