More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 6
"Oh, no," said they, "there's none but a dirty thing that sits in the kitchen nook and wears a rushen coatie."
Who acts: Heels, none, dirty thing · What happens: say, be, sit, wear · To what, where: kitchen nook, rushen coatie · 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 (Heels, none, dirty 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 's | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 's | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 's | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 's | nsubj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 thing | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 none | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sits | nsubj |
| 19 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 nook | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nook | det |
| 22 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nook | compound |
| 23 | nook | nook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sits | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wears | cc |
| 25 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sits | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 coatie | det |
| 27 | rushen | rushen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coatie | compound |
| 28 | coatie | coatie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wears | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 's | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Heels = heel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | a dirty thing | the kitchen nook | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nook=Location | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | present | a dirty thing not said here | a rushen coatie | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent coatie=Source |
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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