More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 87

And he told the landlord he was certainly a wise man now, though he couldn't speak over-distinctly after drinking so much.

Who acts: yi · What happens: tell, be, not speak, drink · To what, where: landlord, 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 (yi), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 landlord	det
5	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	11 man	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 man	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 speak	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 speak	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 speak	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 speak	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 speak	advmod
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
19	over-distinctly	over-distinctly	ADV	_	18 speak	advmod
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 drinking	mark
21	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 speak	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	21 drinking	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	yi	the landlord			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent landlord=Recipient
2	is a	past	yi	a wise man	now	certainly property	tree rules
3	not speak speech: other	could	yi			over-distinctly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	yi not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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