More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 88
And the girl said, "Of course I will, you poor tree."
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: say, tree · 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 (girl, you), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
| 7 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 10 will | advmod |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Of | fixed |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tree | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 will | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tree | nsubj |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tree in a quote | future | you | tree rules |
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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