More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 1

So the baker said, "Look in the oven."

Who acts: baker · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baker), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baker	det
3	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
7	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 oven	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oven	det
10	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Look	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the baker						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	infinitive						in the oven	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in oven=Theme

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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