English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 51

He said to the man: “Friend! what a rare good stick you have got.”

Who acts: man · What happens: say, get · To what, where: man, rare good stick · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Friend	punct
8	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Friend	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stick	det
12	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 stick	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	man		the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	the man = man	a rare good stick not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus

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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