More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 45
"Wise woman said I'd know more than she when I got a coat o' clay," said he, "so I down in the drain and got one, and I'm not a fool any longer."
Who acts: Wise woman, woman, husband, I · What happens: say, know, get, not be · To what, where: more, coat, one, 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 (Wise woman, woman, husband, 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 more | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coat | det |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 clay | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 clay | punct |
| 18 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coat | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 he | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 I | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 drain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 drain | det |
| 30 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 I | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 got | cc |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 got | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fool | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fool | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 fool | nsubj |
| 37 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fool | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 fool | advmod |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fool | det |
| 40 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | conj |
| 41 | any | any | ADV | _ | 42 longer | advmod |
| 42 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 fool | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Wise woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | would | Wise woman = woman | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | woman | a coat of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past | husband | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | I | a fool | long 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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