English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 7
The woman said: “I can't do that, as my man is a giant, and he would kill you if he comes home.”
Who acts: woman, man, he · What happens: say, not do, be, kill, come · To what, where: 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 (woman, man, he), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giant | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 giant | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 man | nmod:poss |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giant | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 giant | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 comes | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 comes | nsubj |
| 26 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | advcl |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 comes | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | can | the woman = woman | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my man | giant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | would | he | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | he | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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