More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 38
"Fool yourself," said he, "the wise woman says I'll know more 'n she when I get a coat o' clay, and here it is.
Who acts: yi, wise woman, woman · What happens: fool, say, know, get, be · To what, where: yourself, more, 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, wise woman, woman), 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 Fool | punct |
| 2 | Fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Fool | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fool | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fool | 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 | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | 'n | 'n | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 coat | det |
| 24 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 27 clay | case |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 clay | punct |
| 27 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 here | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 here | cc |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 says | ccomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 is | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 here | cop |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool in a quote | infinitive | yourself | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | yi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the wise woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | future | yi | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | present | woman | a coat | of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | here 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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