English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 47
“Well, Molly,” says the giant, “I'll just do that to you.”
Who acts: Molly · What happens: say, do · To what, where: giant, that, you · 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 (Molly), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Molly | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Molly | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Molly | the giant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | Molly | that | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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