More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 29

"Aye so?" says she, and looked at him through her spectacles. "

What happens: say, look · To what, where: gode'en, spectacles · 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: 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	_	6 says	punct
2	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 says	discourse
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 so	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	_	10 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	obl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 spectacles	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 spectacles	nmod:poss
15	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looked	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		gode'en					tree rules
2	look	past				gode'en's spectacles		at lad	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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