More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 14

"Well, I'll try you," says his master; "come to me at dinner-time."

Who acts: master · What happens: try, say, come · To what, where: you, master · 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 (master), 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	_	6 try	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 try	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 dinner	punct
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	man's master = master	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	man's master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive			man's master = master	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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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