More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 99

I guess I'll go back to the wise woman and tell her there's a screw loose somewhere."

Who acts: I, screw · What happens: guess, go back, tell, be · To what, where: woman · 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 (I, screw), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 guess	nsubj
2	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 guess	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 's	expl
15	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 screw	det
17	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 's	nsubj
18	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 screw	amod
19	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 loose	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guess	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	present	I				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go back	future	I			to the wise woman result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	present	a screw		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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