More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 83
The one said, "This day I have caught a hare, and he shall carry it, for he is light of foot."
Who acts: one, hare · What happens: say, catch, carry, be · To what, where: I, money · 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, hare), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 6 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | aux |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carry | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 light | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 light | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 light | cop |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 foot | case |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 light | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | I | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary hare=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | shall | hare | money | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | hare | for light; of foot | tree rules |
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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