More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 84
"Be it so," said all; "he shall have a letter and a purse to put our money in, and we shall direct him the right way."
Who acts: hare, we · What happens: be, say, have, put, direct · To what, where: money, letter, hare · 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 (hare, we), 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 Be | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Be | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Be | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Be | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Be | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 letter | det |
| 15 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 purse | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 purse | det |
| 18 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 letter | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 purse | acl |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 money | nmod:poss |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 direct | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 direct | cc |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 direct | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 direct | aux |
| 28 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 direct | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 way | amod |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 direct | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | infinitive | money | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | hare | a letter and a purse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | hare not said here | our money | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal | ||||
| 5 | direct in a quote | shall | we | hare | the right way obl:unmarked | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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