More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 64
"Well, master," said the fool, "I fell into the water and got wet, so I lay down in the road to get dry; and I lay down a fool an' got up a wise man."
Who acts: master, ' · What happens: say, fall, get, lay down, lie down, get up · To what, where: fool, water, road, wise man · 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 (master, '), 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 | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 master | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 19 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 lay | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lay | advcl |
| 30 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 get | xcomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lay | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 lay | compound:prt |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fool | det |
| 37 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 ' | det |
| 39 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 got | nsubj |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lay | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 got | compound:prt |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 43 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 man | amod |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 got | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | master | the fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | master | into the water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | master not said here | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lay down in a quote | present | master | the road | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in road=Destination | |||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | master not said here | dry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | lie down in a quote | past | master | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get up in a quote | past | a ' | a wise man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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