More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 130
"But," said the lassie, "where's No Feet at all, and where's the stair without steps?"
Who acts: lassie · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Feet, all, stair · 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 (lassie), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lassie | det |
| 7 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Feet | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Feet | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 Feet | advmod |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Feet | cop |
| 12 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 Feet | det |
| 13 | Feet | feet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Feet | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stair | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stair | cc |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 stair | advmod |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stair | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stair | det |
| 21 | stair | stair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 steps | case |
| 23 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stair | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the lassie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | no Feet | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the stair | without steps | tree rules |
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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