Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 3
Then the fox came up and said, "Why, Mr Shaggy Matthew!
Who acts: fox · What happens: come up, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Why | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Why | punct |
| 10 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mr | punct |
| 12 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Why | nsubj |
| 13 | Shaggy | Shaggy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr | flat |
| 14 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr | flat |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the fox | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox not said here | 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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