More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 44
"Coat o' muck," said she; "and what of that?"
Who acts: Mother · What happens: say · 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 (Mother), 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 Coat | punct |
| 2 | Coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 muck | case |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 muck | punct |
| 5 | muck | muck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Coat | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coat | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coat | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | 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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