More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 51
"From Elfland I come," said young Tamlane. "
Who acts: young Tamlane · What happens: come, say · To what, where: Elfland · 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 (young Tamlane), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Elfland | case |
| 3 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tamlane | amod |
| 10 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | young Tamlane = tamlane | Elfland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from elfland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | young Tamlane | 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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