More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 6
"And m'appen it won't," says he, and looked out o' the window.
What happens: m'appen, say, look out · To what, where: he · 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 | _ | 3 m'appen | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 m'appen | cc |
| 3 | m'appen | m'appen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wo | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 m'appen | parataxis |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wo | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 m'appen | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 m'appen | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 looked | compound:prt |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 window | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 window | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | m'appen in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look out | past | of the window | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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