English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 86
“That doesn't signify,” says she.
Who acts: That · What happens: not signify, say · To what, where: cook · 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 (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 signify | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 signify | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 signify | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 signify | advmod |
| 5 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 signify | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 signify | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not signify in a quote | present · do-support | That | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | cook | 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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