More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 101

"Well," said she, after looking in the brewpot, and in the mirror, and in the Book, "it be main queer, but I can't rightly tell ye what's happened to her.

Who acts: lot, Moon · What happens: say, look, be, not tell, happen · To what, where: main queer, ye, lot · 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 (lot, Moon), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 brewpot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brewpot	det
12	brewpot	brewpot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mirror	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mirror	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mirror	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mirror	det
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Book	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Book	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 Book	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Book	det
22	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 queer	nsubj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 queer	cop
27	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 queer	amod
28	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
32	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 tell	advmod
34	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	35 tell	advmod
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
36	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 tell	iobj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 happened	nsubj
38	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 happened	aux:pass
39	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 tell	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 happened	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	lot not said here			in the mirror; in the Book; in the brewpot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in brewpot=Theme
3	is a in a quote	infinitive	Moon	main queer			tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	lot		ye	rightly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic
5	happen in a quote	present · passive			lot		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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