More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 95
"Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the 'Basin of Water' I dwell."
Who acts: truth, Catskin · What happens: tell, dwell, sign · To what, where: Kind sir, Basin · 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 (truth, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 2 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sir | amod |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sign | punct |
| 12 | At | at | ADP | _ | 14 sign | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sign | det |
| 14 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Basin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Basin | det |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Basin | punct |
| 18 | Basin | Basin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sign | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Water | case |
| 20 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Basin | nmod |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 Basin | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 dwell | nsubj |
| 23 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sign | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | the truth | Kind sir | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | present | Catskin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sign in a quote | the Basin of Water | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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