Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 8

170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the catastrophe: "O here is a brave sight, looke, here is a goodly ieast, what bugge haue we here," said some. "

Who acts: _, other birds, taunts, 170-5 · What happens: be, cause, say · To what, where: taunts, catastrophe, brave sight, goodly ieast, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, other birds, taunts, 170-5), 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	170-5	170-5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 ieast	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sight	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 sight	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taunts	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 taunts	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 taunts	det
7	taunts	taunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sight	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 birds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taunts	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cause	nsubj
13	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 birds	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 catastrophe	det
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cause	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
18	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 here	nsubj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 taunts	advmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sight	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sight	det
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sight	amod
23	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 170-5	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looke	punct
25	looke	looke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sight	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sight	punct
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 170-5	advmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ieast	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ieast	det
30	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ieast	amod
31	ieast	ieast	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 said	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 haue	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 haue	advmod
34	bugge	bugge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 haue	compound
35	haue	haue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ieast	appos
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 here	nsubj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 haue	acl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ieast	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 ieast	punct
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 said	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	_	the taunts	here	of the other birds	tree rules
2	cause	present	the other birds	the catastrophe			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition catastrophe=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	the taunts	a brave sight and looke			tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	170-5	a goodly ieast			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past		some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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