More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 19
"Now, how can I tell?" said the sexton's wife.
Who acts: wife · What happens: tell, say · 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 (wife), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 tell | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sexton | det |
| 12 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 sexton | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | the sexton's wife = wife | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the sexton's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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