More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 62
"Nay, thou must be a fool to take a journey on such a silly errand.
Who acts: thou · What happens: be, take · To what, where: fool, journey, silly errand
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 (thou), 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 | _ | 8 fool | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 8 fool | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 fool | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fool | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fool | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fool | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 errand | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 errand | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 errand | det |
| 16 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 errand | amod |
| 17 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | thou | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | a journey | such silly errand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent journey=Theme on errand=Destination |
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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