More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 99

"Why," said the courtier, "count me how many of you there be," and one counted eleven and did not count himself. "

Who acts: courtier · What happens: say, count, not count · To what, where: courtier, 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 (courtier), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtier	det
7	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 count	obj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 count	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 many	nmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 be	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 many	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 counted	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 counted	nsubj:pass
22	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
23	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 counted	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 count	cc
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 count	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 count	advmod
27	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 counted	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 count	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the courtier		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	count in a quote	infinitive		the courtier = courtier	tree rules
3	count	participle · passive		one	tree rules
4	not count	past · do-support		courtier	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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