More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 11
But the girl said, "No, I can't milk you, I'm in a hurry," and went on faster.
Who acts: girl · What happens: say, not milk, be, go on · To what, where: you, hurry · 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 (girl), 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 | But | but | 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 milk | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 milk | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 milk | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 milk | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 milk | advmod |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 milk | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurry | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hurry | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurry | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hurry | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hurry | det |
| 19 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 milk | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurry | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 milk | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | 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 | not milk in a quote | can | the girl = girl | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the girl = girl | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | the girl not said here | fast property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/11/