More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 115
"Oh dearie me, oh dearie me," says she, "I've swam and I've paddled and I've danced, and if ye'll not help me I shall never find the stars in the sky to play with."
Who acts: dearie, ye · What happens: say, swim, paddle, dance, not help, not find · To what, where: dearie, 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 (dearie, ye), 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 dearie | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 dearie | discourse |
| 3 | dearie | dearie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Oh | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 7 | dearie | dearie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dearie | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dearie | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dearie | 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 | 17 swam | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swam | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 swam | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 swam | nsubj |
| 16 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 swam | aux |
| 17 | swam | swim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 paddled | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 paddled | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 paddled | aux |
| 21 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 swam | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 danced | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 danced | nsubj |
| 24 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 danced | aux |
| 25 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 paddled | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 find | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 find | cc |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 help | mark |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 help | nsubj |
| 30 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 help | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 help | advmod |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 find | advcl |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 find | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 find | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 find | advmod |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stars | det |
| 39 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 find | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sky | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sky | det |
| 42 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 find | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 play | mark |
| 44 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 sky | acl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 play | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | dearie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | present · perfect | dearie | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | paddle in a quote | present · perfect | dearie | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dance in a quote | present · perfect | dearie | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | ye | dearie | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | not find in a quote | shall | dearie | the stars | the sky | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic | |||
| 7 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | dearie 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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