More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 96
"Oh, yes, my bonnie lassie," said the mill-dam. "
Who acts: bonnie lassie · What happens: say · To what, where: mill dam · 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 (bonnie lassie), 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 | _ | 8 lassie | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 lassie | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 lassie | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lassie | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lassie | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bonnie | bonnie | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lassie | amod |
| 8 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lassie | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lassie | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dam | det |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dam | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mill | punct |
| 15 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my bonnie lassie | the mill dam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dam=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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