More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 86

And when they were speaking about it among the servants, "Dear me, Mrs. Cook," said Catskin, "how much I should like to go."

Who acts: nerves, Catskin · What happens: speak, say, like, go · To what, where: much · 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 (nerves, Catskin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 speaking	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 speaking	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speaking	aux
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	obl
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 servants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speaking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Dear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Dear	punct
13	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servants	nmod
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Dear	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mrs.	punct
16	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Dear	appos
17	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mrs.	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speaking	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 speaking	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 like	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 like	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	nerves = nerve		about honour; among the servants Dear	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Catskin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	should	Catskin	much		tree rules
4	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Catskin not said here			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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