More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 100
"Why, truly," he said, "I think I have caught the devil himself.
Who acts: Lambton · What happens: say, think, catch · To what, where: Lambton · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lambton), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caught | aux |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 think | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 devil | det |
| 17 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 caught | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lambton | truly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Lambton | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Lambton | Lambton obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary devil=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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