The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 12

Mother says that they are just common scarlet-runners, and nothing else; but I may as well sow them.’

Who acts: Mother, beans, I · What happens: say, be, sow · To what, where: common scarlet runners, beans · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, beans, I), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 runners	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 runners	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 runners	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 runners	advmod
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 runners	amod
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 runners	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 scarlet	punct
10	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nothing	cc
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 runners	conj
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 nothing	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sow	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sow	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sow	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sow	aux
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	21 sow	cc
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	sow	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sow	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	beans = bean	common scarlet runners	tree rules
3	sow	may	I	beans = bean	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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