More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 93
But he held the cheese crud in his hand, and said: "I'll squeeze your heart like the flint-stone."
Who acts: crud, I · What happens: hold, say, squeeze · To what, where: cheese crud, hand, heart · 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 (crud, I), 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 | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crud | det |
| 5 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crud | compound |
| 6 | crud | crud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crud | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeeze | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeeze | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 squeeze | nsubj |
| 16 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 squeeze | aux |
| 17 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 squeeze | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 stone | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 22 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stone | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 flint | punct |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 squeeze | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeeze | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeeze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | crud | the cheese crud | crud's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crud=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | squeeze in a quote | future | I | your heart | like the flint stone | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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