More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 58

"Marry, themselves," said the fellow; "they know the way well enough."

Who acts: fellow, Cheeses · What happens: marry, say, know · To what, where: Cheeses, way · 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 (fellow, Cheeses), 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	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 themselves	punct
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Marry	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 enough	advmod
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry in a quote	infinitive		Cheeses = cheese		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the fellow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	Cheeses = cheese	the way	enough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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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