More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 35
"I will do so, my liege," said the Abbot, "so far as my poor wit can extend."
Who acts: Abbot, poor wit · What happens: do, say, extend · To what, where: liege · 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 (Abbot, poor wit), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 liege | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 liege | nmod:poss |
| 8 | liege | liege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Abbot | det |
| 13 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 extend | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 extend | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wit | amod |
| 21 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 extend | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 extend | aux |
| 23 | extend | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 extend | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the Abbot = abbot | my liege | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Abbot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | extend in a quote | can | my poor wit | far property | vn exist-47.1 «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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