More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 136
"What's a wee, wee mannie to do, Wi' such a big contrairy Coo?"
Who acts: Wi · What happens: be, do, coo · To what, where: wee
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 (Wi), 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 | _ | 5 wee | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 wee | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wee | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wee | det |
| 5 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mannie | punct |
| 7 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mannie | amod |
| 8 | mannie | mannie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wee | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mannie | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Coo | punct |
| 12 | Wi | Wi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Coo | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 Wi | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 Coo | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Coo | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Coo | amod |
| 17 | contrairy | contrairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Coo | compound |
| 18 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wee | appos |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 Coo | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Coo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a wee | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | coo in a quote | Wi | nom coo «event intransitive»: poss=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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