More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 77
"Law, no!" says she, looking skeered, "I winna have that.
What happens: say, skeer, have · To what, where: st, that · 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Law | law | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Law | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Law | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Law | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Law | 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 | _ | 11 skeered | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 skeered | aux:pass |
| 11 | skeered | skeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 winna | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 winna | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 winna | nsubj |
| 15 | winna | winna | X | _ | 11 skeered | dep |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 skeered | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | st | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skeer | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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