More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 75
"Chop him into pieces," said another. "
Who acts: you · What happens: chop, say · To what, where: other, pieces, another · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chop | punct |
| 2 | Chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Chop | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Chop | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chop | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chop | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Chop | conj |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | other | into pieces result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=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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