More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 100
"M'appen," says he then, "it may be a tadpole, missis."
Who acts: M'appen, ear · What happens: say, be · To what, where: tadpole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (M'appen, ear), 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 | _ | 2 M'appen | punct |
| 2 | M'appen | M'appen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 M'appen | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 M'appen | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 says | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tadpole | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tadpole | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tadpole | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tadpole | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tadpole | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tadpole | det |
| 14 | tadpole | tadpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 missis | punct |
| 16 | missis | missis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tadpole | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tadpole | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tadpole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | M'appen | tadpole | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | may | ear | a tadpole and missis | tree rules |
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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