More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 29
"Ah!" he said; "never you blame Adam again, my man!"
Who acts: man, you · What happens: say, not blame · To what, where: Adam · 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, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 blame | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 blame | nsubj |
| 11 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 blame | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod:poss |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | present | you | Adam | again | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adam=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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