English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 8

“There,” said she, “no thieves will ever find it now, that is quite sure.”

Who acts: wife, thieves, that · What happens: say, find, be · To what, where: rag · 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 (wife, thieves, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 said	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 thieves	det
10	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 find	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 sure	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 sure	advmod
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife		there			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	find in a quote	future	no thieves	rag		ever; now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	that				sure property	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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