More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 66
So the fool told him about the wise woman and the coat o' clay.
Who acts: fool · What happens: tell · To what, where: ' · 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 coat | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | conj |
| 13 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 clay | case |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 clay | punct |
| 15 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coat | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the fool | ' | about the wise woman and the coat of clay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about woman=Topic |
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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