More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 120

But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out: "Pooh, pooh, turn that boy out, it can't be him."

Who acts: others, eye · What happens: be, kill, cry out, pooh, turn out, not be · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, eye), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fit	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 others	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fit	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	cop
6	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fit	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 pooh	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pooh	punct
16	Pooh	pooh	INTJ	_	18 pooh	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Pooh	punct
18	pooh	pooh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turn	punct
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 pooh	conj
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turn	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	20 turn	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 him	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 him	nsubj
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 him	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 him	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 him	cop
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pooh	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 pooh	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pooh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all others		fit property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	all others not said here	boy		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	cry out speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pooh in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
5	turn out in a quote	infinitive		that boy		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
6	not is a in a quote	can	eye	boy		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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