More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 48
"Gode'en, missis," says he, "I reckon I've fetched thee the right thing this time, surely," and he plumped the sack down kerflap! in the doorsill.
Who acts: Gode'en, yi · What happens: say, reckon, fetch, plump down · To what, where: yi, thee, sack, doorsill · 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, 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 | " | " | 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 | _ | 12 reckon | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reckon | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reckon | nsubj |
| 12 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fetched | nsubj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fetched | aux |
| 15 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 reckon | ccomp |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 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 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 surely | punct |
| 23 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 15 fetched | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 surely | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reckon | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 plumped | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 plumped | nsubj |
| 28 | plumped | plump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sack | det |
| 30 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plumped | obj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 plumped | compound:prt |
| 32 | kerflap | kerflap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plumped | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 kerflap | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 doorsill | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 doorsill | det |
| 36 | doorsill | doorsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plumped | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Gode'en and missis | yi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reckon in a quote | present | Gode'en and missis = gode'en | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fetch in a quote | present · perfect | Gode'en and missis = gode'en | thee | time | surely property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary thing=Theme | ||
| 4 | plump down | past | yi | the sack | the doorsill | kerflap obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
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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