English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 9
I'll wear' em and tear 'em, good body, good body.
Who acts: I · What happens: wear, tear · To what, where: em, 'em
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wear | aux |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 em | punct |
| 5 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wear | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tear | cc |
| 7 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wear | conj |
| 8 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 body | punct |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 body | amod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 body | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 body | amod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 body | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | future | I | em = they | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tear | infinitive | I not said here | 'em = they | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme |
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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