More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 81
"Can thee so?" says he, doubtful like; "I reckon they're too hard for women folk."
Who acts: I, crops · What happens: say, reckon, be · 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, crops), 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 | _ | 2 Can | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Can | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Can | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Can | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Can | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doubtful | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubtful | punct |
| 10 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 doubtful | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 reckon | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 reckon | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 reckon | nsubj |
| 15 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hard | nsubj |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hard | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 hard | advmod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reckon | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 folk | case |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 folk | compound |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hard | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | reckon in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | crops = crop | for women folk; hard property | 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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