More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 98
"Hum," said the fool, as he lay in the dust, "I'm not so wise as I thought.
Who acts: fool, rt · What happens: say, lie, not be, think · To what, where: dust · 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, rt), 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 Hum | punct |
| 2 | Hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hum | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hum | 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 | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 lay | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dust | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dust | det |
| 14 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wise | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wise | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wise | nsubj |
| 18 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wise | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 wise | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 wise | advmod |
| 21 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 thought | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wise | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | rt | the dust | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | the fool = fool | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the fool = fool | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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