More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 72

Ah," said they all, "a mischief on this eel, for he has eaten up all our fish."

Who acts: other · What happens: say, eat up · To what, where: fish · 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 (other), 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	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	ccomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 they	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mischief	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 mischief	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mischief	det
10	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 eel	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 eel	det
13	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mischief	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 eaten	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eaten	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 eaten	compound:prt
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 fish	det:predet
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fish	nmod:poss
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	eat up	present · perfect	other	our fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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