More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 40
"Now, neighbours," he said, "how much meal is there in my sack?"
Who acts: sound · What happens: say, be · To what, where: sack · 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 (sound), 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 Now | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 4 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Now | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 neighbours | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sack | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meal | amod |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sack | cop |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sack | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sack | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 sack | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | sound | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my sack | tree rules |
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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