More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 47
"Ay," said he, "I'm going to marry so-an'-so."
Who acts: husband · What happens: say, go, marry · 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 (husband), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 so | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 an | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 so | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 an | punct |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 so | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 marry | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | husband | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | husband not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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