English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 6
They said: “Please let us in and give us something to eat.”
Who acts: man · What happens: say, let in, give, eat · To what, where: us, something · 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 (man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 let | discourse |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 let | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 something | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in in a quote | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | something | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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