More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 52
"Then thou 'rt a bigger fool than ever, for all thy coat o' clay!" said his mother, and banged the door in his face.
Who acts: rt · What happens: say, bang · To what, where: mother, door, face · 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 (rt), 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 thou | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thou | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 rt | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thou | punct |
| 5 | rt | Rt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fool | amod |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rt | appos |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 fool | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coat | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 coat | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 coat | det |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rt | appos |
| 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 | _ | 5 rt | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rt | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 banged | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 banged | cc |
| 26 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 banged | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 face | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 face | nmod:poss |
| 31 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 banged | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | rt | rt's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bang | past | rt not said here | the door | rt's face | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme in face=Trajectory |
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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