More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 43
"Mother, I 've got a coat o' clay," said he.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, say · To what, where: 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Mother | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 clay | case |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 clay | punct |
| 11 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coat | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | a coat of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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