More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 58

Hi, yi!" said he, "here's a coat o' clay ready made, and a fine one.

Who acts: yi · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: coat · 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 (yi), 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	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	3 yi	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
3	yi	yi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 here	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	ccomp
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 here	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coat	det
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 here	nsubj
14	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 clay	case
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 clay	punct
16	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coat	nmod
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	compound
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 coat	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	yi			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	yi		here property	tree rules
3	make	participle		a coat of clay not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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