More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 16

"Hout no," says he, "jist ordinary brains--fit for any fool--same as every one has about here; something clean common-like."

Who acts: schoolmaster, one · What happens: hout, say, brain, have · 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 (schoolmaster, one), 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 Hout	punct
2	Hout	hout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Hout	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hout	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hout	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brains	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brains	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 brains	punct
10	jist	jist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brains	compound
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brains	amod
12	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	ccomp
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 fit	punct
14	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brains	amod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 fool	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fool	det
17	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fit	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 same	punct
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fit	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 has	mark
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 same	advcl
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 here	advmod
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 has	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 something	punct
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 says	ccomp
28	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	amod
29	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 like	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 common	punct
31	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clean	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 something	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	hout in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	brain in a quote		schoolmaster		tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	every one	here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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