English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 50
“Oh,” says the giant's wife, “what do ye see, Molly?”
Who acts: wife, ye · What happens: say, see · To what, where: Molly · 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, ye), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 giant | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 see | obj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Molly | punct |
| 17 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Molly | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | the giant's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | ye | Molly | 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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