More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 20
"But," says he, scratching his head, "how can I do that?"
Who acts: I · What happens: say, scratch, do · To what, where: lt, head, that · 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 says | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scratching | punct |
| 8 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 says | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scratching | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 do | advmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | lt | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scratch | gerund | lt's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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