More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 36
"Go on, go on," said his wife; "never mind Old Tom."
Who acts: wife · What happens: go on, say, not mind · To what, where: Old Tom · 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 mind | advmod |
| 15 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Tom | amod |
| 17 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mind | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tom's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | Old Tom | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=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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