English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 9
“Why, I love you as fresh meat loves salt,” says she.
Who acts: I, fresh meat · What happens: love, say · To what, where: you, salt, she · 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 (I, fresh meat), 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 | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 love | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 loves | mark |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meat | amod |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loves | nsubj |
| 10 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | advcl |
| 11 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loves | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | fresh meat | salt | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salt=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | she | 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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