English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 118
“Yes,” said the old man; “you are right welcome to my poor cottage.”
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 welcome | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 welcome | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 welcome | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 welcome | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 welcome | amod |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 cottage | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cottage | amod |
| 18 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 welcome | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | to my poor cottage; welcome property | 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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