More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 135
Look at that, now!" said the wee, wee Mannie--
Who acts: wee wee Mannie · What happens: look, say · 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 (wee wee Mannie), 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 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 now | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Look | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mannie | det |
| 10 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Mannie | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mannie | punct |
| 12 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Mannie | amod |
| 13 | Mannie | Mannie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | now | at that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the wee wee Mannie | 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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