More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 48
"Nay, shepherd, not so," said the Abbot; "I must meet the danger in my own person.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: say, meet · To what, where: danger · 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 shepherd | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 shepherd | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 4 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 so | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 shepherd | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Abbot | det |
| 12 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 meet | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 meet | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 meet | aux |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 danger | det |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 person | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 person | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 person | amod |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | shepherd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | must | shepherd | the danger | in my own person | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Co-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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