More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 94
"I reckon I've fetched thee the right thing at last," says he.
Who acts: I · What happens: reckon, fetch, say · To what, where: thee, last, sun · 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 | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fetched | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fetched | aux |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reckon | ccomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 fetched | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetched | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fetched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckon | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 says | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fetch in a quote | present · perfect | I | thee | last | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | sun | 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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