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

MR. G. Did he indeed? a greedy dog.

Who acts: G. · What happens: do

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 (G.), 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	MR.	MR.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 G.	nmod:desc
2	G.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Did	nsubj
3	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Did	nsubj
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 Did	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dog	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Did	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	G. MR.					indeed property	vn act-114-1 «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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