More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 94
"Goode'en to ye," says she, "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with.
Who acts: Goode'en · What happens: say, seek, play · To what, where: lassie, stars, sky · 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 (Goode'en), 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 Goode'en | punct |
| 2 | Goode'en | Goode'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ye | case |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Goode'en | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goode'en | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goode'en | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeking | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeking | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seeking | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seeking | aux |
| 13 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seeking | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeking | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 play | mark |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seeking | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 play | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Goode'en to ye | lassie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | Goode'en to ye = goode'en | the stars | the sky | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent star=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 3 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | Goode'en to ye = goode'en not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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