More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 74

"Ay," said the fool, "I be dirty outside an' dusty in, but it's not the right thing yet."

Who acts: fool, sun · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: right thing · 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, sun), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fool	det
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dirty	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dirty	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dirty	nsubj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dirty	cop
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	16 dusty	mark
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dusty	det
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 dusty	punct
16	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dirty	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 dusty	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thing	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 thing	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thing	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 thing	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 thing	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 thing	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fool				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	infinitive	the fool = fool			dirty property	tree rules
3	not is a in a quote	present	sun	the right thing	yet		tree rules

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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