English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 33
“Lord save you!” exclaimed Jack: “I've seen a rare sight.”
Who acts: Lord, Jack, farmer · What happens: save, exclaim, see · To what, where: you, rare sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lord, Jack, farmer), 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 | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 save | nsubj |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 save | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | conj |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 save | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 15 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sight | amod |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | infinitive | Lord | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | the farmer = farmer | a rare sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=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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