More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 48
"What!" said his mother, "_that_ lass?
Who acts: _ · What happens: say, lass · To what, where: mother · 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 (_), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 _ | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 _ | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mother | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lass | nsubj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 lass | punct |
| 13 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 _ | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | husband's mother and _ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lass in a quote | _ | 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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