More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 131
Well," said Jack, "I'll try my vorton; zo now vor the king's daughter, or a headless shepherd!"
Who acts: Jack, I · What happens: say, try · To what, where: vorton · 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, I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 try | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 try | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 try | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 try | aux |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 vorton | nmod:poss |
| 12 | vorton | vorton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 try | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 vor | punct |
| 14 | zo | zo | X | _ | 16 vor | compound |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 vor | advmod |
| 16 | vor | vor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vor | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shepherd | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 shepherd | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shepherd | det |
| 24 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shepherd | amod |
| 25 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vor | appos |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 shepherd | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 shepherd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | future | I | my vorton | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vorton=Eventuality |
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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