More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 62
"Yes, kind Sir, I am within, Softly do I sit and spin."
Who acts: Fish · What happens: sit, spin · To what, where: kind Sir
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 (Fish), 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 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 Sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sir | punct |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sir | amod |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 within | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 within | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 within | cop |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 11 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sit | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spin | cc |
| 16 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sit | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | present · do-support | the Fish = fish | kind Sir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spin in a quote | infinitive | the Fish = fish not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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