More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 57

"Oo, I've killed my pig, and lost my mother and I'm nobbut a fool myself," says he, sobbing.

Who acts: I, pig · What happens: kill, lose, nobbut, say, sob · To what, where: I, mother, fool · 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 (I, pig), 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 killed	punct
2	Oo	oo	INTJ	_	6 killed	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oo	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj:pass
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 says	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pig	nmod:poss
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	parataxis
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nobbut	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 nobbut	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nobbut	aux
17	nobbut	nobbut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lost	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fool	det
19	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nobbut	obj
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 nobbut	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 killed	punct
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sobbing	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sobbing	punct
26	sobbing	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 says	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		I		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer pig=Result
2	lose in a quote	past		my mother		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
3	nobbut in a quote	present · progressive	I	a fool	myself obl:unmarked	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sob	gerund	pig			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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