More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 82
"Well," says she, "let's see now.
Who acts: 's · What happens: say, let, see · To what, where: mother, 's · 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 ('s), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 see | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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