More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 25
"Marry," said the other, "I will bring them over this bridge."
Who acts: other · What happens: marry, say, bring · To what, where: Sheep, bridge · 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 (other), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 bridge | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | 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 | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | future | the other = other | Sheep | this bridge | 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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