More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 37
"Hasn't thou naught for supper, dame?" said he to his wife.
Who acts: naught · What happens: say · To what, where: wife · 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 (naught), 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 naught | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 naught | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 naught | advmod |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 naught | nsubj |
| 5 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 supper | case |
| 7 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 naught | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dame | punct |
| 9 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 naught | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 dame | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dame | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | naught | fairy's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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