More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 23
"Marry," said he that was going to Nottingham, "I am going to buy sheep."
Who acts: Nottingham, vow · What happens: marry, say, go, buy · To what, where: Nottingham, sheep · 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 (Nottingham, vow), 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 | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 2 | Marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Nottingham | case |
| 11 | Nottingham | Nottingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 going | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 buy | mark |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 buy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | Nottingham | Nottingham | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the vow = vow | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | buy in a quote | to-infinitive | the vow = vow not said here | sheep | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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