More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 56
"Here," said the shepherd Abbot, planting his crozier in the ground; "an' your Majesty believe me not, go measure it and see."
Who acts: shepherd, Majesty · What happens: say, plant, not believe, go, measure, see · To what, where: crozier, ground, shepherd · 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, Majesty), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shepherd | det |
| 7 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shepherd | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 planting | punct |
| 10 | planting | plant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 crozier | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crozier | crozier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 planting | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 planting | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Majesty | det |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Majesty | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 believe | iobj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 believe | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | parataxis |
| 27 | measure | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 measure | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the shepherd | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plant | gerund | the shepherd not said here | Abbot's crozier | the ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crozier=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | not believe in a quote | infinitive | your Majesty | the shepherd = shepherd | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | measure in a quote | infinitive | crozier | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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