More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 139
"Ah, well," said the Fish; "that's all right then.
Who acts: Fish, that · What happens: say, be · 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, that), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fish | det |
| 9 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 right | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 right | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 right | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 right | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 right | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | is in a quote | present | that | then | all, right property | 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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