More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 91

"Haven't any!" said the fool, and pulled out his pockets to show they were empty.

Who acts: fool, fools · What happens: say, pull out, show, be · To what, where: pockets · 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, fools), 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	_	4 any	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 any	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 any	advmod
4	any	any	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 any	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 any	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fool	det
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulled	cc
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 pulled	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pockets	nmod:poss
15	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pulled	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 show	mark
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pulled	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 empty	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 empty	cop
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 show	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fool		any property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pull out	past	the fool not said here	yi's pockets		tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	the fool not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	fools = fool		empty property	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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