More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 50
And he scratched his head, and thought and thought, but he couldn't tell.
Who acts: yi · What happens: scratch, think, not tell · To what, where: head · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 scratched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scratched | nsubj |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 scratched | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | yi | yi's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | yi not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | yi not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | could | yi | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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