English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 51
But Molly never said a word but, “Oh, if ye saw what I see!”
Who acts: Molly, ye · What happens: not say, see · To what, where: word · 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 saw | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 see | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: express | past | Molly | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | Molly | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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