More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 54
"Friend," said he, "I wonder much at your fruitless standing.
Who acts: Friend, your · What happens: say, wonder, stand · To what, where: fruitless standing · 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 (Friend, your), 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 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wonder | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonder | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonder | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wonder | nsubj |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 wonder | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 standing | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 standing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 standing | amod |
| 15 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wonder | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | Friend | your fruitless standing | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | your | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=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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