English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 44
“Well,” said Mr. Vinegar, “I should like to have them.”.
Who acts: Vinegar · What happens: say, like, have · To what, where: Mr. · 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 (Vinegar), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 like | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Vinegar Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | should | Vinegar Mr. = vinegar | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Vinegar Mr. = vinegar not said here | Mr. | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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