More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 4

"Kind sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the 'Broken Ladle' I dwell."

Who acts: truth, hand · What happens: tell, dwell · To what, where: Kind sir · 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 (truth, hand), 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	_	22 dwell	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dwell	det
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 dwell	punct
18	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Ladle	amod
19	Ladle	Ladle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 dwell	obl
20	'	's	PART	_	19 Ladle	case
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dwell	nsubj
22	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sign	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
24	"	"	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	hand					's Broken Ladle	vn exist-47.1 «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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