More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 107
And the apple-tree said, "No, mother; not for seven year."
Who acts: apple tree · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple tree), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 apple | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 9 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 mother | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 No | punct |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 year | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 year | nummod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the apple tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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