More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 23
Oh, what can I do for ye in return?" exclaimed she, in delight. "
Who acts: I · What happens: do, exclaim · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 return | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 delight | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 delight | case |
| 17 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 delight | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | for return | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | girl | tree rules |
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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