More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 13
"No, I shouldn't," said the man; "I should ha' know'd better."
Who acts: man · What happens: say, ha, know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 should | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 should | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 should | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 should | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 should | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 should | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ha | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ha | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ha | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ha | aux |
| 16 | ha | ha | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ha | conj |
| 19 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | aux |
| 20 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 know | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ha | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ha | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ha in a quote | should | the man = man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | the man = man not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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