More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 50
Burd Janet said; "and why have you been away so long?"
Who acts: Burd, you · What happens: say, have, 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 (Burd, 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 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Janet | Janet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Burd | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 away | cop |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 have | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Burd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | participle | away 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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