More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 25
"And I reckon I'll have to kill that pig," says he, "for I like fat bacon better than anything."
Who acts: I, pig · What happens: reckon, have, kill, say, like · To what, where: pig, fat bacon · 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, pig), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 reckon | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 pig | det |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 he | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 like | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 21 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bacon | amod |
| 22 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 like | obj |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 like | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 anything | case |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 better | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | that pig | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | like in a quote | present | pig | fat bacon | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bacon=Theme |
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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