More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 98
Oh," said they, "this day we came to fish in this brook, and there were twelve of us, and one is drowned."
Who acts: men, we, twelve · What happens: say, come, be, drown · To what, where: brook, one · 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 (men, we, twelve), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 brook | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 brook | det |
| 16 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 were | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 21 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 were | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 twelve | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drowned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drowned | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 drowned | aux:pass |
| 28 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 drowned | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | men = man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | we | this brook | day | to fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fish=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | be | past | twelve of us | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drown | present · passive | one | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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