More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 13
And says my Lady, "Walk over that handkerchief without stumbling."
What happens: say, walk, stumble · To what, where: Lady, handkerchief · 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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 says | cc |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Lady | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Walk | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Walk | punct |
| 7 | Walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 handkerchief | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 handkerchief | det |
| 10 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Walk | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 stumbling | mark |
| 12 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Walk | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Walk | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my Lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | infinitive | that handkerchief | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over handkerchief=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | stumble in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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