More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 69

"Dang it!" said the fool, as he scratched his head. "

Who acts: you, fool, lad · What happens: dang, say, scratch · To what, where: word, head · 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 (you, fool, lad), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dang	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scratched	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 scratched	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scratched	nsubj
12	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dang	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scratched	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Dang	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dang in a quote	imperative	you not said here	word	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the fool		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	scratch	past	lad	lad's head	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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