More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 29

The old gentleman said: "It is true; I am a hardened sinner.

Who acts: old gentleman, chair · What happens: say, be, harden · To what, where: hardened sinner · 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 (old gentleman, chair), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gentleman	amod
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sinner	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sinner	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sinner	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sinner	det
14	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sinner	amod
15	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 true	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old gentleman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	chair		true property	tree rules
3	harden in a quote	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	the old gentleman = gentleman	a hardened sinner		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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