English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 75
“From him that gave it me,” says she.
What happens: give, say · To what, where: ring, me, maid · 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: 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 gave | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | obl |
| 4 | that | that | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | ring | me | from Cap; that property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | maid | 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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