More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 37
"Morning, fool," said she; "hast thou been ducked in the horse-pond?"
Who acts: many · What happens: say, have, duck · To what, where: thou, horse pond · 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 (many), 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 Morning | punct |
| 2 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Morning | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Morning | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Morning | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hast | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hast | punct |
| 11 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ducked | advcl |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hast | obj |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 ducked | aux:pass |
| 14 | ducked | duck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pond | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pond | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pond | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 19 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ducked | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | many | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||||
| 3 | duck in a quote | participle · passive | the horse pond | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING» |
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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