More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 11
"And--and--the beasts is fattening," says he.
Who acts: beasts · What happens: fatten, say · To what, where: M'appen · 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 (beasts), 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 | _ | 9 fattening | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fattening | cc |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 fattening | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fattening | cc |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fattening | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fattening | aux |
| 9 | fattening | fatten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fattening | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fattening | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatten in a quote | present · progressive | the beasts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | M'appen | 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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