More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 47
"'T isn't so very unsightly," said she, looking hard at him.
Who acts: goodwife · What happens: not be, 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 (goodwife), 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 | _ | 8 unsightly | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 T | punct |
| 3 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unsightly | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unsightly | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 unsightly | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 unsightly | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 unsightly | advmod |
| 8 | unsightly | unsightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unsightly | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 unsightly | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | T obl; unsightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | goodwife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | goodwife not said here | at goodman; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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