More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 46
"Very good," said his mother, "now thou canst get a wife."
Who acts: mother, thou · What happens: say, get · To what, where: wife · 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, thou), 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 get | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | can | thou | a wife | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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