More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 53
"Dang it!" said the fool, and scratched his head, "that's not the right sort o' clay sure-_ly_."
Who acts: fool, that · What happens: dang, say, scratch, not be · To what, where: door, head, right sort · 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 (fool, that), 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 | _ | 2 Dang | punct |
| 2 | Dang | dang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Dang | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dang | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dang | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scratched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scratched | cc |
| 11 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scratched | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sort | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sort | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sort | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sort | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sort | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sort | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sort | amod |
| 21 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scratched | conj |
| 22 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 clay | case |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 clay | punct |
| 24 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sort | nmod |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clay | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 _ | punct |
| 28 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 _ | amod |
| 29 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 _ | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dang in a quote | infinitive | door | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | scratch | past | rt's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | that | the right sort | of clay | 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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