More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 68
Lad, take my word for it, you are a bigger fool than ever," and he rode on laughing.
Who acts: you, lad, my · What happens: take, be, ride, laugh, word · To what, where: word, bigger fool
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 (you, lad, my), 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 | Lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lad | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fool | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fool | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fool | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fool | det |
| 12 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 fool | amod |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | vocative |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 fool | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ever | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fool | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rode | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 laughing | mark |
| 22 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 rode | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my word | for word; Lad vocative | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent word=Theme for it=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a bigger fool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | past | lad | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | gerund | lad not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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