More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 2
"Good e'en, missis," says he, "it's a fine night."
Who acts: Good e'en, missis · What happens: say, be · To what, where: he, fine night · 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 (Good e'en, missis), 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 | _ | 3 e'en | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 e'en | amod |
| 3 | e'en | e'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 missis | punct |
| 5 | missis | missis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 e'en | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 e'en | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 e'en | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 night | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 night | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Good e'en and missis | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | missis | a fine night | 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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