More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 19

"Jest so," says she, looking in the pot; "bring me the heart of the thing thou likest best of all, and I'll tell thee where to get thy pottle o' brains."

Who acts: I · What happens: say, look, bring, tell, get · To what, where: Jest, heart, me, thee, pottle · 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), 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 Jest	punct
2	Jest	Jest	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 says	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heart	det
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 thing	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heart	nmod
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 likest	nsubj
23	likest	like	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thing	appos
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 likest	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 best	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tell	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bring	parataxis
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 tell	iobj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 get	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tell	ccomp
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 pottle	nmod:poss
37	pottle	pottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
38	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	40 brains	case
39	'	's	PART	_	40 brains	punct
40	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 get	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Jest			tree rules
2	look	gerund				in the pot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pot=Theme
3	bring in a quote	infinitive		the heart of the thing	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination heart=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I		thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
5	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		thy pottle		of brains	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pottle=Stimulus

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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