More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 57
"Who should bring them?" said one of the market men.
Who acts: one · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: Cheeses · 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 (one), 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 | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 men | compound |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | should | Cheeses = cheese | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | one of the market men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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