More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 136
"Nay," said the Fish, "I can't unless you bring me word from the Good Folk."
Who acts: Fish, you · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: word, Fish, Good Folk · 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 (Fish, you), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fish | det |
| 7 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ca | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ca | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ca | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 ca | advmod |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Folk | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Folk | det |
| 20 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Folk | amod |
| 21 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | you | word | the Fish = fish | the Good Folk | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination word=Theme |
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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