More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 62
"Well," says she, "I wouldn't mind looking after thee myself."
Who acts: I · What happens: say, not mind, look · To what, where: art, myself · 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), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mind | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mind | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 mind | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mind | advmod |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 mind | xcomp |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 looking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | art | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | would | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | gerund | I not said here | myself | after thee | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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