More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 134

"Goode'en to ye, big Fish," says she, "I'm looking for the stars in the sky, and for the stairs that climb up to them.

Who acts: Goode'en, stairs · What happens: say, look, climb up · To what, where: fish, stairs · 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 (Goode'en, stairs), 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	_	2 Goode'en	punct
2	Goode'en	Goode'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 ye	case
4	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Goode'en	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Fish	punct
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Fish	amod
7	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Goode'en	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Goode'en	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Goode'en	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 looking	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looking	aux
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 says	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 stars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stars	det
19	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looking	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stars	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stairs	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stairs	cc
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 stairs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stairs	det
27	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looking	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 climb	nsubj
29	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stairs	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 climb	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 climb	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Goode'en to ye	fish			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	look in a quote	present · progressive	Goode'en to ye = goode'en			for the stars in the sky; for the stairs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for star=Theme
3	climb up in a quote	present	the stairs		stairs = stair		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination

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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