More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 56
Oh, ho!" said the fox, "it's but a short mile From this unto yonder wee town, e-ho!"
Who acts: ho · What happens: say, be · To what, where: fox, short mile, this · 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 (ho), 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 | _ | 3 ho | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ho | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mile | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mile | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mile | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mile | cop |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 mile | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mile | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mile | amod |
| 16 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | From | from | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 mile | nmod |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 20 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 21 wee | advmod |
| 21 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 town | amod |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mile | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 e-ho | punct |
| 24 | e-ho | e-ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mile | parataxis |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 e-ho | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 e-ho | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ho | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ho | a short mile | this | unto wee town | 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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