English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 13

“Eh,” said the wife, “it's three poor lassies cold and hungry, and they will go away.

Who acts: wife, knock, lassies · What happens: say, be, go away · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, knock, lassies), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Eh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Eh	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	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cold	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 cold	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cold	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cold	cop
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lassies	nummod
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lassies	amod
14	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cold	nsubj
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hungry	cc
17	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cold	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	knock	cold property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		knock not said here		tree rules
4	go away in a quote	future	lassies = lassie	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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