More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 51
"Thou 'st not hit the right thing, my lad," says she. "
Who acts: Thou · What happens: not hit, say · To what, where: right thing, st · 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 (Thou), 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 | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 st | punct |
| 4 | st | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thou | conj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hit | advmod |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 says | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lad | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lad | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 says | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hit in a quote | infinitive | Thou | the right thing | my lad vocative | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | st | 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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