More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 96
"Canst tell me what that is as has first no legs, and then two legs, and ends with four legs?"
Who acts: that · What happens: tell, be, have, end · To what, where: two legs, me, legs · 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 (that), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 has | mark |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | advcl |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 legs | advmod |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 legs | det |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 legs | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 legs | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 legs | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 legs | nummod |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ends | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ends | cc |
| 20 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 legs | case |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 legs | nummod |
| 23 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ends | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | two legs | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | no legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||||
| 4 | end in a quote | present | with four legs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with leg=Subeventuality |
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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