More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 103
"Where be they?" says he, looking about and feeling in his pockets.
Who acts: brains, M'appen · What happens: be, say, look, feel · 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 (brains, M'appen), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feeling | cc |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 looking | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pockets | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feeling | obl | |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | brains = brain | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | look | gerund | M'appen | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | M'appen not said here | in M'appen's pockets | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute |
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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