More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 60
"By St. John," laughed King John, "I did not think it could be done so soon.
Who acts: I · What happens: laugh, not think, do · To what, where: John, sun · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 John | case |
| 3 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 John | nmod:desc |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 John | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 John | nmod:desc |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 think | advmod |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laughed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 think | ccomp |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 done | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | John King | by John St. | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could · passive | sun | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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