More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 37
"Your Majesty jesteth," stammered the Abbot.
Who acts: Majesty, Abbot · What happens: jest, stammer · 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 (Majesty, Abbot), 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 jesteth | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jesteth | nsubj |
| 4 | jesteth | jest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stammered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stammered | punct |
| 7 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jesteth | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Abbot | det |
| 9 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stammered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jesteth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jest speech: other in a quote | present | Your Majesty | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | past | the Abbot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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