English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 18
“Well,” says they, “if you like to wash the pots and scrape the saucepans you may stay,” said they.
Who acts: you, wages · What happens: say, like, wash, scrape, stay · To what, where: wages, pots, saucepans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wages), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 like | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wash | mark |
| 13 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pots | det |
| 15 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wash | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scrape | cc |
| 17 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wash | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 saucepans | det |
| 19 | saucepans | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scrape | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stay | aux |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saucepans | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | wages = wage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wash not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the pots | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scrape in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the saucepans | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | may | you | the saucepans not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme saucepan=Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | wages = wage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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