More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 79
"No; but if I had, maybe I'd have got my pottle o' brains," says he.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, get, say · To what, where: pottle, lass · 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 | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 got | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 9 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 says | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pottle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pottle | pottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 brains | case |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 brains | punct |
| 18 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 says | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | would · perfect | I | my pottle | of brains; maybe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pottle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | lass | tree rules |
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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