More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 106

My faicks!" says he, "I'd clean forgot, but I reckon I kens where the Moon be!" and he told them of how he was lost in the bogs, and how, when he was nigh dead with fright, the light shone out, and he found the path and got home safe.

Who acts: faicks, I, man · What happens: say, clean, forget, reckon, ken, tell · To what, where: kens, man, bogs, light, path · 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 (faicks, I, man), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 faicks	nmod:poss
2	faicks	faick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 faicks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 faicks	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forgot	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 clean	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 clean	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	aux
11	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 he	conj
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reckon	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 reckon	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 reckon	nsubj
16	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kens	nsubj
18	kens	ken	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reckon	obj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 be	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moon	det
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 be	nsubj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 kens	acl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 kens	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 reckon	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reckon	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 lost	mark
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 lost	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lost	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lost	aux:pass
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 told	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bogs	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bogs	det
36	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lost	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 how	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 how	cc
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 told	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dead	punct
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 dead	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 dead	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dead	cop
44	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dead	amod
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 told	conj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 fright	case
47	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dead	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 light	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 light	det
50	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fright	conj
51	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 light	acl
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 shone	compound:prt
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 found	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 found	cc
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 found	nsubj
56	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 path	det
58	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 found	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 got	cc
60	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 found	conj
61	home	home	ADV	_	60 got	advmod
62	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 got	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	My faicks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	clean	would	I					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	forget	past	man					tree rules
4	reckon	present	I					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	ken		I					tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	man		kens = ken			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	lose in a quote	past · passive		man		the bogs		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	is in a quote	past	man				with fright and the light; dead property	tree rules
9	shine out in a quote	participle		the light not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	find in a quote	past	man	the path				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
11	get in a quote	past	man not said here				home, safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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