More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 27
"By Maid Marion," said he that was going thither, "but I will."
Who acts: Maid · What happens: say, go · 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 (Maid), 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 | _ | 3 Maid | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 Maid | case |
| 3 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Marion | Marion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maid | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maid | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maid | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 will | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 will | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Maid | thither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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