More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 109

But they said: "What should the like of you do at church, nasty thing?

Who acts: sisters · What happens: say, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 thing	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 church	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 like	fixed
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 church	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 church	aux
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 church	case
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 church	punct
16	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	sisters = sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thing in a quote	should						like church	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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