More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 53

"See there!" says he, and set down by the road side and greets.

What happens: see, say, set down, greet · To what, where: rt · 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: 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 See	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	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	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 says	ccomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	compound
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 greets	cc
17	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 set	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: express	present	rt			tree rules
3	set down	participle			by the road side	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination
4	greet speech: greet	present				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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