More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 95
But he didn't say anything, for a monkey's cunning, but down he went.
Who acts: crud · What happens: not say, go · To what, where: anything · 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), 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 | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cunning | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cunning | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 monkey | det |
| 10 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cunning | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 monkey | case |
| 12 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anything | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | crud | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | crud | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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