More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 13
"And--and--" says he, and comes to a stop--"I reckon we'll tackle business now, having done the polite like.
Who acts: I, we, polite like · What happens: say, come, reckon, tackle, have, do · To what, where: M'appen, stop, business, polite like · 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 (I, we, polite like), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 says | cc |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | 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 | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 comes | cc |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stop | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stop | det |
| 14 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 reckon | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 reckon | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 reckon | nsubj |
| 18 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 comes | conj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tackle | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 tackle | aux |
| 21 | tackle | tackle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 reckon | ccomp |
| 22 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tackle | obj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 tackle | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 having | punct |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 tackle | advcl |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 having | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 like | det |
| 28 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 like | amod |
| 29 | like | like | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 having | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | M'appen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | a stop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stop=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | reckon in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tackle in a quote | future | we | business | now | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | gerund | we not said here | the polite like | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | participle | the polite like not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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