More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 40
"Ay," said she, for she thought she'd like a fool for a husband, "when shall it be?"
Who acts: woman, lass · What happens: say, think, like, be · 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 (woman, lass), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fool | det |
| 15 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 husband | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 husband | det |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fool | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 be | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 be | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 be | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 be | aux |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 be | nsubj |
| 24 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | woman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | would | woman | a fool | for a husband | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fool=Stimulus for husband=Attribute | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | shall | lass | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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