More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 75
"That's good hearing," says she, "and what then?"
Who acts: That · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good hearing · 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 (That), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hearing | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hearing | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearing | amod |
| 5 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 " | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 says | obl |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 what | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | good hearing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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