More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 49
Then he said within himself, "I must needs try the issue of it," and so he trudged up to London town.
Who acts: salmon · What happens: say, need, try, trudge up, issue · To what, where: issue, London town, dream · 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 (salmon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 must | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 needs | aux |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 needs | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 issue | det |
| 13 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 issue | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 trudged | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 trudged | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 trudged | nsubj |
| 21 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 trudged | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 town | compound |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trudged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | salmon | then | within salmon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | need in a quote | must | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | try not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | the issue of dream | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | trudge up | past | salmon | London town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination | ||||
| 5 | issue in a quote | dream | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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