English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 46

“You are a bigger fool than I am,” said the wife; “for I did only one foolish thing, and you have done two.”

Who acts: You, wife · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: bigger fool, two · 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 (You, wife), 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	_	6 fool	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fool	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fool	amod
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 I	case
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fool	nmod
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	23 thing	case
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 thing	nummod
22	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 done	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 done	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a bigger fool	than the wife = wife	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present · perfect	you	two		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality

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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