More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 56
I'll see for myself, I will," said she, "maybe it's not so bad as folks make out."
Who acts: I, goodwife, Moon, folks · What happens: see, say, not be, make out · 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 (I, goodwife, Moon, folks), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 myself | case |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 will | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bad | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bad | punct |
| 15 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 20 bad | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bad | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bad | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 bad | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 bad | advmod |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 22 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | nsubj |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bad | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 make | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | I | for myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | goodwife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | Moon | bad, maybe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make out | present | folks | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: 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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