More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 98
"But what will become of the dinner?" said Rushen Coatie.
Who acts: Rushen · What happens: become, 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 (Rushen), 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 | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 become | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dinner | det |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rushen | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | future | of the dinner | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Rushen | 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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