More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 135
"But one thing more," said the Wise Woman, going back to her cell. "
Who acts: Wise Woman · What happens: say, go back · 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 (Wise Woman), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 more | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 more | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Woman | det |
| 10 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Woman | amod |
| 11 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 cell | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cell | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wise Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go back | gerund | the Wise Woman not said here | to woman's cell result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cell=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/135/