More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 80
"Not a bit of it," says she; "just thou take me as I be, heart and all, and I'll wager I'll help thee read the riddles."
Who acts: thou, I, thee · What happens: say, take, be, wager, help, read · To what, where: mother, me, thee, riddles · 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 (thou, I, thee), 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 | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bit | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 heart | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heart | punct |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 all | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 heart | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wager | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wager | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wager | nsubj |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wager | aux |
| 28 | wager | wager | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 help | nsubj |
| 30 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 help | aux |
| 31 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wager | ccomp |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 help | obj |
| 33 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 help | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 riddles | det |
| 35 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 read | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 wager | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 wager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | thou | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | I | as heart | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wager in a quote | future | I | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | help in a quote | future | I | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | read in a quote | infinitive | thee not said here | the riddles | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
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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