English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 43
“Yes, truly,” cried the man; “and my hands are as warm as possible this cold November day.”
Who acts: man, hands · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hands), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 warm | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 warm | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 warm | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 warm | advmod |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 possible | mark |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warm | advcl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 November | amod |
| 22 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 day | compound |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warm | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the man | truly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my hands | day | warm property | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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