More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 101
"Goode'en to ye, Brooklet, Brooklet," says she; "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with.
Who acts: brooklet · What happens: say, seek, play · To what, where: stars, sky · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brooklet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:1368): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goode'en | punct |
| 2 | Goode'en | goode'en | INTJ | _ | 11 says | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ye | case |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Goode'en | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brooklet | punct |
| 6 | Brooklet | Brooklet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Goode'en | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brooklet | punct |
| 8 | Brooklet | Brooklet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brooklet | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goode'en | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goode'en | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeking | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeking | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 seeking | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seeking | aux |
| 17 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 says | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stars | det |
| 19 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seeking | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sky | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seeking | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 play | mark |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stars | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 play | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | brooklet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | brooklet | the stars | the sky | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent star=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 3 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | brooklet not said here | the stars not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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