More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 64

"Ou, ay!" says she; "folks say as fools make good husbands, and I reckon I'll have thee, if thou 'rt willing."

Who acts: folks, fools, I · What happens: say, make, reckon, have · To what, where: art, good husbands, thee · 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 (folks, fools, 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	_	7 says	punct
2	Ou	ou	INTJ	_	4 ay	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ou	punct
4	ay	ay	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ay	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ay	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
14	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 husbands	amod
17	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reckon	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reckon	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 reckon	nsubj
21	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	parataxis
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 reckon	ccomp
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 willing	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 willing	mark
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 willing	nsubj
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 willing	punct
30	rt	Rt	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 willing	nsubj
31	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reckon	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		art	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	folks		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	present	fools	good husbands	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset husband=Product
4	reckon in a quote	present	I		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have in a quote	future	I	thee	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient

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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