More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 114
Jack, who never stood on ceremony, bawled out, "What a troop of fair ladies we've got here!"
Who acts: Jack, troop · What happens: not stand, bawl out, get · To what, where: ceremony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, troop), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ceremony | case |
| 7 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bawled | punct |
| 9 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bawled | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 What | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 What | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 troop | det |
| 15 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ladies | case |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ladies | amod |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 troop | nmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 What | acl:relcl |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | past | Jack | ceremony | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bawl out speech: other | participle | Jack not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | a troop of fair ladies | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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