More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 14

Who shall say which is which, as Mr. Lang would observe.

Who acts: Lang · What happens: say, be, observe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lang), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 say	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 which	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 which	cop
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 observe	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 observe	mark
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Lang	nmod:desc
10	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 observe	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 observe	aux
12	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		tree rules
3	observe	would	Lang Mr.	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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