More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 43

Hi, yi!" says he, "must I take mother's heart to her?"

Who acts: yi · What happens: say, take · To what, where: heart, mother · 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 (yi), 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	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	3 yi	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
3	yi	yi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 yi	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	yi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	must	yi	mother's heart	mother				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to she=Destination

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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