More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 44
"Now, cheer up, Sir Abbot," said the shepherd. "
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: cheer up, say · 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 (shepherd), 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 cheer | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 cheer | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 cheer | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sir | punct |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cheer | vocative |
| 8 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sir | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheer | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheer | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shepherd | det |
| 13 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer up in a quote | infinitive | now | Sir vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shepherd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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