English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 14
“Lord a' mercy! and maybe you've seen my old man there,” alluding to her former husband.
Who acts: you, Lord · What happens: see, allude · To what, where: old man
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Lord), 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 | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mercy | det |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mercy | punct |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lord | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 8 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 11 seen | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 mercy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 man | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 seen | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 18 | alluding | allude | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Lord | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 husband | amod |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 alluding | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | my old man | there | maybe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | allude | gerund | Lord not said here | to Jack's former husband | 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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