More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 92
Now the very next Sunday was Yuletide, and all the folk were going to church in their best clothes, so Rushen Coatie said: "Oh!
Who acts: folk, Sunday Yuletide · What happens: be, go, say · To what, where: Sunday Yuletide, best clothes · 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 (folk, Sunday Yuletide), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Yuletide | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sunday | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 next | advmod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sunday | amod |
| 5 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yuletide | compound |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Yuletide | cop |
| 7 | Yuletide | Yuletide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 folk | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 folk | det |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Yuletide | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 clothes | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 clothes | amod |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 going | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 said | advmod |
| 23 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 24 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Rushen | flat |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Oh | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Oh | punct |
| 28 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sunday Yuletide | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | all folk | nook's best clothes | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sunday Yuletide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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