More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 51
Ah, gaffer," said the fellow, "can you run to market alone?
Who acts: gaffer, you · What happens: say, run · To what, where: fellow · 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 (gaffer, you), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 gaffer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | gaffer | gaffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gaffer | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gaffer | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 run | nsubj |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 market | mark |
| 15 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | advcl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 run | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | gaffer | the fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fellow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run | can | you | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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