More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 24
"Buy sheep?" said the other, "and which way will you bring them home?"
Who acts: you, other, way · What happens: buy, say, bring · To what, where: 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 (you, other, way), 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 Buy | punct |
| 2 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Buy | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Buy | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Buy | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | future | which way | Sheep | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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