More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 71
"I reckon thou 'lt do then as well as anybody," says he; "but what'll I do about this wise woman?"
Who acts: I, pig · What happens: reckon, say, do · To what, where: thou, lt · 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 | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 reckon | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| 6 | lt | lt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckon | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | aux |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 says | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 12 anybody | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 12 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 says | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 anybody | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckon | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 says | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 reckon | parataxis |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 woman | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon in a quote | present | I | thou | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme lt=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | lt | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | pig | about this wise woman | vn act-114-1 «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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