More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 49
"Maybe," says the wise woman, "but read me this, now, what's yellow and shining but isn't gold?"
Who acts: wise woman · What happens: say, read, be, shine, not be · To what, where: this, wise woman, gold · 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 (wise woman), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 read | cc |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 read | obj |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 read | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 yellow | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 yellow | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 yellow | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 yellow | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 yellow | cop |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 read | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shining | cc |
| 22 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 yellow | conj |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 gold | cc |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 gold | cop |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 gold | advmod |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yellow | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | the wise woman | maybe property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | infinitive | the wise woman not said here | this | the wise woman = woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient this=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | now | yellow property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | gold | 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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