More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 3
"Nasty, lying thing," said the step-sister, "never mind what it says."
Who acts: step sister, thing · What happens: lie, say, not mind · 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 (step sister, thing), 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 thing | punct |
| 2 | Nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sister | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 step | punct |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 mind | advmod |
| 16 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 says | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mind | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the step sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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