More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 137
"Oh, shepherd," said the lady, "I have caught you napping!"
Who acts: shepherd, you · What happens: say, catch, nap · To what, where: lady, shepherd · 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 (shepherd, you), 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 | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 shepherd | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shepherd | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | aux |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 napping | nsubj |
| 16 | napping | nap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 caught | advcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 napping | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | shepherd | the lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | shepherd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | nap in a quote | gerund | you | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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