More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 32
"Go thy ways," says she, "thou 'st not fetched me the right thing yet.
Who acts: gode'en · What happens: go, say, not fetch · To what, where: ways, right thing, me · 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), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 ways | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Go | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fetched | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 she | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 13 | st | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fetched | advmod |
| 15 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fetched | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obj |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 fetched | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | thy ways | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not fetch in a quote | past | gode'en | the right thing | me | yet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary thing=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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