More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 28
"Gode'en, missis," says he, "I've brought thee the heart o' the thing I like the best of all; and I put it hapt in paper on the table."
Who acts: Gode'en, heart · What happens: say, bring, like, put, hapt · To what, where: lad, thee, best, paper · 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 (Gode'en, heart), 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 Gode'en | punct |
| 2 | Gode'en | Gode'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missis | punct |
| 4 | missis | missis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gode'en | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gode'en | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gode'en | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 says | conj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 thing | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 like | nsubj |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 best | det |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 like | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 best | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hapt | nsubj |
| 32 | hapt | hapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 put | ccomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 paper | case |
| 34 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hapt | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 table | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 table | det |
| 37 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hapt | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Gode'en and missis | lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Gode'en and missis = gode'en | thee | of the thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination heart=Theme | |||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | Gode'en and missis = gode'en | the best | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | past | Gode'en and missis = gode'en | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hapt in a quote | past | heart | paper | on the table | 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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